Category Archives: Fun

Nerds and Words (about science)

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Stephen

Nerds Many of you will already have seen this because I have been promoting it shamelessly on twitter. But this is the video of the talk I mentioned in a post back in March that my daughter Eleanor gave on … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun, Science | 30 Comments

Urgent new priority for UK science

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Stephen

In a dramatic move today, the Government responded to an unprovoked attack on scientists from Guardian writer Simon Jenkins by announcing radical new priorities for UK science. Revealing the policy shift, science minister David Willetts said*, “We have to re-purpose … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun | 14 Comments

Thunderbirds are go!

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Stephen

I saw this and thought of you… …Steffi.

Posted in Fun | 10 Comments

I’m a scientist, get me out of here!

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Stephen

Ha, this’ll make you laugh. Having spent my last blogpost in wistful reflection on the endless judgements that I find myself subjected to as a working scientist, I have just signed up–quite voluntarily, of my own free will and with … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Fun | 20 Comments

Making Movies

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Stephen

For three days last week I was at the EMBL in Heidelberg taking a fantastic course on data visualisation. As is often the way with scientific training, the course was intense: lectures and practicals from 9 in the morning till … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun, Protein Crystallography | 13 Comments

Still Running

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Stephen

After a slight delay, I had an idea for a blog post and I’m going to run with it. Hope you can keep up. I have started to run. I have known for a long time that I needed to … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun, Scientific Life | 62 Comments

Oddly Connect

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Stephen

The germ of this post started with a remark by Kristi, who was struck on a recent visit to the UK by the number of people reading on public transport. I was reading a piece from this week’s Nature as … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun, History of Science, Science & Media, Uncategorized | 27 Comments