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So you’re having a bad day at work. People are constantly demanding your attention, adding to your behemoth of a to-do list that you can’t get to because of all the interruptions. People are replying to your emails in such … Continue reading →

I was interested by an article in this week’s Nature1 about the Italian government outsourcing some peer review to the American NIH. This seems like it could be a useful exercise for some governments, in some circumstances. However, I was … Continue reading →

Very funny (from here) On a lighter note, do you like these beaver cup cakes my friend made for me?

I’ve been making good use of my ability to turn any song in my iTunes libarary into a free iPhone ringtone, and now have several custom tones set up to denote different callers. Sitting at my desk just now, finishing … Continue reading →

I recently commented that I don’t think there’s any such thing as the perfect job. But I think I might have been wrong. A paper in today’s Current Biology[1] made me realise that my perfect job does exist:

I understand the need for the first “Other” option. But not the second. No wonder they need people to specify.

As many of you already know, I became a Canadian citizen yesterday. The ceremony was great. The participants came from 22 different countries, with every (inhabited) continent represented. There was talk of rights, freedoms, responsibilities, tolerance, and the Canadian family. … Continue reading →

A colleague just alerted me to a new initiative from Bayer Healthcare. From Targets to Novel Drugs offers up to €250,000 in exchange for a brief abstract. The stated objective: With this initiative, Bayer Schering Pharma aims to encourage research … Continue reading →

I’ve been very busy recently, but apparently not in the most constructive way. *I’ve been busy figuring out Twitter.* So far the only advantage I can see over Facebook is that I can access it at work without having to … Continue reading →

I feel awesome today! ………………….. Will Cath get sick this weekend? Stay tuned and find out…