Category Archives: communication

Read this headline

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Cath@VWXYNot?

(This one) and see if you agree that using a different word would have avoided a rather unfortunate word juxtaposition. Yeah… at first glance, I was thinking more “OMG, carnage in the neonate unit” than “nice good-news story”. ————–Update, Feb … Continue reading →

Posted in communication, English language, nature, Vancouver | 12 Comments

e-Ps and Qs

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I’m a very polite person. As a Brit in Canada, I frequently apologise to people who stand on my foot on the bus; it’s a habit I just can’t seem to break. As everyone knows though, email etiquette is a … Continue reading →

Posted in career, communication, English language | 24 Comments

Crossposting due to image incompetence

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I originally created this post simply as a place to display an image for my Nature Blog, which has a very confusing link and upload process. It’s totally not working out so I’m just going to leave the image here, … Continue reading →

Posted in career, communication, grant wrangling | 12 Comments

B(academia) to the Future

Posted on October 21, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I have a new job! As of November 5th, I will be back in the academic institute where I did my postdoctoral research (different department, same building.) It’s a new position whose main role is to help increase the amount … Continue reading →

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Challenge me!

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I’ve been actively soliciting feedback from scientists whose papers I have summarised on this blog. A critique I received from one respondent is that my posts are very technical, and might be difficult for the lay person to follow.I tend … Continue reading →

Posted in communication, publishing, science | 6 Comments

So-called Science

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Cath@VWXYNot?

What message did you infer from my choice of title? Perhaps that I am going to talk about something that is posing as science – pretending to be the real deal – but that is actually some kind of quackery … Continue reading →

Posted in communication, English language, rants, science | 2 Comments