Author Archives: Stephen

Taking my cue from Ben Goldacre’s comments at SciBlog08, I’d like to unleash the power of the blogosphere. I want to see if Nature Networkers can shed any light on the interview that I heard early this morning on the … Continue reading →

My co-stars and I are €400 richer thanks to this blog becasue I am delighted to report that our recent video was awarded first prize in the competition run by the organisers of the EuFMD Meeting on the Global Control … Continue reading →

Most days you can call me Mr Molecule for I am to be found with my head buried in a thicket of atomic bonds. But every so often I pull myself free of my protein structures and take a look … Continue reading →

I couldn’t not do a quick post about this – today’s Futures story in Nature which provides an interesting medical twist on Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a tale that resonated with me a couple of weeks back. … Continue reading →

“The problem with the French is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur.” Thus—allegedly—spoke soon-to-be ex-President George Bush. It may be an apocryphal tale but I do so want it to be true. And speaking of entrepreneurs, Michael Birch, … Continue reading →

The Guardian runs an interesting ‘”Writer’s Rooms” feature in its Review section every Saturday in which a writer (or sometimes an artist) discusses a photograph of their office or workroom, pointing out significant objects. The idea (as in Desert Island … Continue reading →

It looks like SciBlog08 was very much ahead of the curve in issuing the call for more scientists to get involved in blogging. A former student (thanks Ananyo) has just drawn my attention to an open access article on science … Continue reading →

My resemblance to Blanche DuBois has not been remarked on before but last Wednesday evening it was unmistakeable. There I was travelling on the tube to the TalkScience event at the British Library when, like Tennessee Williams’ fateful Southern belle, … Continue reading →

I have been thinking about this for a quite while, but finally got a kick up the backside. And now it’s done. With two members of my group I’ve put together a short movie on our research and, thanks to … Continue reading →

In my last post I tried to elucidate the classy and artful double-entendre title of this blog. My Reciprocal Space, I explained, is a place for exchange, but the name also belies a play on words that invokes the peculiar … Continue reading →

It’s the name of this blog. But why? Well, in Web2.0-land, a blog (can you hear my teeth grinding?) is quintessentially a space for the reciprocation of views, the exchange of ideas. So far, so good, but the title is … Continue reading →