{"id":1648,"date":"2008-05-29T19:18:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T19:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/29\/the_tag_challenge\/"},"modified":"2008-05-29T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T19:18:05","slug":"the_tag_challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/05\/29\/the_tag_challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tag Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one to turn down a <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/forums\/nnbloggername\/1523?page=1#reply-4497\">challenge<\/a>, so here&#8217;s my attempt at a coherent blog post that incorporates my top ten tags.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<del>When trying to obtain <strong>research funding<\/strong> for your favourite <strong>science<\/strong> projects, you will need to undertake lots of <strong>grant writing<\/strong>. It is best to take this endeavour seriously and avoid the kind of <strong>silliness<\/strong> that might result in an IgNobel prize sitting in a defunct, unfunded lab<\/del>.<br \/>\n<del>To be successful you will need to convince the funding body of the usefulness and potential benefits of your research. Unfortunately fields such as <strong>evolution<\/strong> can suffer from a perceived lack of practical benefits. While topics such as the role of <strong>transposable elements<\/strong> in the evolution of the human genome (and the genomes of our closest relatives, if <strong>primatology<\/strong> is your thing) are fascinating in their own right, you might have to reserve those subjects for discussion in your weekly <strong>journal club<\/strong> and work on something more sensible instead<\/del>.<br \/>\n<del>If you&#8217;re in <strong>Canada<\/strong>, research that focuses on protecting our collapsing <strong>fish<\/strong> stocks is a pretty good bet<\/del>.<br \/>\nUPDATE: there was supposed to be a 100 word limit. D&#8217;oh! Here&#8217;s the shortened version:<br \/>\n<strong>Research funding<\/strong> for any <strong>science<\/strong> project requires lots of <strong>grant writing<\/strong>. You should take this endeavour seriously, avoiding any <strong>silliness<\/strong> that might result in an IgNobel prize and unemployment.<br \/>\nYou will need to convince the funding body of the usefulness of your research. Unfortunately, the study of <strong>evolution<\/strong> has few practical benefits. The role of <strong>transposable elements<\/strong> in the human genome (and in our closest relatives, if <strong>primatology<\/strong> is your thing) is fascinating, but you should probably reserve those subjects for <strong>journal club<\/strong> and work on something more sensible instead.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re in <strong>Canada<\/strong>, <strong>fish<\/strong> research is a good bet.<br \/>\nThat was actually quite a useful exercise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one to turn down a challenge, so here&#8217;s my attempt at a coherent blog post that incorporates my top ten tags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}