Category Archives: Scientific Life

The Lady in the Room

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Stephen

She’s here. She’s in the room. I’ve not noticed her before — not in previous years — but every now and then her presence is unmistakable. I am sitting in a lecture theatre in St Andrews University in Scotland, attending … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Review, Scientific Life | 18 Comments

Three Things

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Stephen

Three unrelated things. The first is to alert you to a little update of my last post on the Sense about Science demonstration outside the Department of Health to raise awareness about their lax proposals for the regulation of traditional … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Scientific Life | 8 Comments

The Seriously Funny Fringe

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Stephen

When Simon Jenkins wrote in The Guardian a couple of months back about science being a new religion we all scoffed. Oh, how we scoffed. Scoff, scoff, scoff, scoff, scoff. Scoff. But having been at the Edinburgh Fringe for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Science & Media, Scientific Life | Tagged | 12 Comments

Science and the importance of cheese

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Stephen

Week two of “I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here!” is now upon me. This week the evictions start, so the competition is hotting up. I had meant to get around to writing a blog-post about week one, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Scientific Life | 43 Comments

Inflation

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Stephen

This is, to my mind, a quite astonishing report about Nature Publishing Group (NPG) hiking its proposed 2011 journal subscription charges to the University of California (UC) by 400%. (NPG is the company that runs the Nature Network blogging platform). … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Access, Scientific Life | 71 Comments

A MAD day

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Stephen

This is a quick one. The internet’s not working terribly reliably at home so, in case you missed it on Twitter, Facebook or Friendfeed, here is a short film about what myself and some of my group got up to … Continue reading →

Posted in Protein Crystallography, Scientific Life | 18 Comments

Judgement Days

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Stephen

When I die and am laid in my grave and my soul ascends to the Pearly Gates and the Supreme Being peers at me over half-moon glasses and declares, “Well Stephen, it’s Judgement Day”, I will look him in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, Scientific Life | 36 Comments

Mark this Day

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Stephen

Mark this day! Mark this day. Hang out the bunting And launch a clatter of fireworks from the grassy earth For its like may not be seen again. Today I ran for a full twenty-eight minutes Without stopping. I lapped … Continue reading →

Posted in Scientific Life | 23 Comments

Scientia Pro Publica 22

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Stephen

Roll up! Roll up! Lay-deeeez and Genne-men! Step right in! We have here today for your delectation and amazement a veritable cornucopia of comeliness, a festival of fecundity, a very large bucket of sciency bits, in all their wondrous and … Continue reading →

Posted in Communication, Scientific Life | 28 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

Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Stephen

On Friday evening the structural biologists of Imperial College and the friends of the structural biologists of Imperial College gathered together for a screening of the film, Naturally Obsessed. Filmed over three years, this hour-long documentary tracks the lives of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema, Protein Crystallography, Science, Scientific Life | 10 Comments