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I’m in the early stages of submitting a pre-application to a new (to me) funding organisation, which involves finding and summarising a lot of information from their website. I was impressed by the following option: The PI also may provide … Continue reading →

The clinical building at my institute has always been very conscientious about infection control. They’ve had hand sanitiser dispensers for years, but in the last few months (before swine flu!) they’ve begun to supplement them with large numbers of new … Continue reading →

So says the BBC. For someone like me, who’s aware of the context (and hasn’t read the latest issue of Nature yet), this phrase made perfect sense. But you have to wonder how the average BBC website reader reacted to … Continue reading →

May the fourth be with you.

Now, I know that these are scary times. People are worried for themselves and for their families, and they’re turning to trusted news sources for information. So the CBC should be ashamed of themselves for running this story. Fear-mongering is … Continue reading →

reading: a collaborative research agreement written in really quite outstanding legalese. listening to: a podcast of a live Bjork concert. The word of the day is “Challenging”.

The problem: If a technology described as next-generation sequencing is being published in multiple papers per month, then surely it is no longer “next generation” but “current generation”. What horrors will be spawned by future advances in sequencing technology? Next-next-generation … Continue reading →

My work has gone fire safety crazy recently. I’m one of the few people on my floor who’s usually at their desk rather than in the lab or off doing whatever it is that PIs do when they’re not in … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, I woke up feeling great. I had a spring in my step all day, I sang all the way into work, I was incredibly productive, I chatted with everyone, I sang all the way back home, and then … Continue reading →

Testing the iPhone blogging thing