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Holy Snapping Duck Do! I just had a cup of tea and realised I have not updated this since they let me out!… You would not believe the amount of people that are totally stalking me. I hope they bring … Continue reading →

Hey, if Henry can promote his new blog, so can I! This one is actually a collaborative effort, called The Alternative Scientist. The focus is on “alternative careers” – slightly misnamed since most PhDs don’t end up in a traditional … Continue reading →

So you’re compiling the weekly email alert for Nature’s Signaling Update, and you’re choosing a paper of the week. The paper involves a growth factor binding protein that promotes cardiac development. So what do you do?

Realising that the stacked papers behind my monitor were starting to pose a serious safety hazard, I decided to actually read a few of them today before they crush me to death in the next earthquake. Cup of tea in … Continue reading →

My primary supervisor once introduced me to a colleague with the words “Cath has the ability to translate Science into English”. That’s actually not a bad description of parts of my job, which includes writing lay summaries of research projects … Continue reading →

The police are said to be hopping mad. But at least we can rule out an orca with a one-sided foot fetish as the suspect.

…the Spanish Inquisition Science Police. My friends fall into several groups, with only minimal overlap. A couple of groups are almost exclusively scientists, but in another I am the only person with any science background at all. I tend not … Continue reading →

No, it’s not football. Although I’m enjoying that too.

Or rather, the room is half empty. I am lucky enough to work in an award-winning, eco-friendly, purpose-built research centre. It’s a huge step up from the converted bakery that the centre lived in when I first arrived in Vancouver … Continue reading →

I’m not one to turn down a challenge, so here’s my attempt at a coherent blog post that incorporates my top ten tags.