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With the exception of two years on the dark side1, my entire career has been spent in cancer research. Both the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, where I did my PhD, and the place in which I did my postdoc … Continue reading →

Full stops1 at the end of bullet pointed text: yes or no? I just realised that half of my slides have them, and half don’t. I went through and added punctuation to the lines that were missing it, went for … Continue reading →

Welcome! I’ve been haunting the Nature Network for a few months now, and haven’t seen any other carnivals hosted here in that time. I may have missed a carnival post somewhere along the way, but in an effort to be … Continue reading →

Having a bad day? Turn to the Worst Result Ever blog for solace. There are some real stinkers on there. See? Things could be so much worse1. My own Worst Result Ever was a CAT assay that should have been … Continue reading →

I’m going to try Richard’s approach here, even though it doesn’t seem to have generated much in the way of actual cloning help. Yet. I need to brush up on my seriously rusty stats skills, which were never all that … Continue reading →

This weird looking critter just showed up in Utah. I hope it turns out to be something cooler than “a Lake Trout whose tissue decomposed rapidly, making its teeth more prominent”.

The province of British Columbia introduced some new anti-smoking laws today. The city of Vancouver is taking things to an extreme – cue reporters on the morning news measuring exactly how far you have to be from a doorway before … Continue reading →

In plenty of time for April Fools Day, may I present a thread on good practical jokes to play in labs? . Dry ice exploding out of snap-cap tubes is old hat. The snatching away of our secondary school chemistry … Continue reading →

I’ve been giving a lot of thought recently to the effects of a peripatetic scientific lifestyle on friendships. I spent my undergrad, postgrad and postdoctoral years in different countries, and in each place there was a constant reshuffling of my … Continue reading →

I got back from a short ski trip on Thursday to find the usual log jam in my Outlook inbox, mostly caused by journal tables of contents. I try to keep up with the literature in my current and two … Continue reading →