{"id":175,"date":"2008-04-29T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/04\/29\/the-margins-of-scientific-understanding\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T23:30:00","slug":"the-margins-of-scientific-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/04\/29\/the-margins-of-scientific-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"The margins of scientific understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently I&#8217;m feeling bloggier now.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a good sign when you write &#8220;aaarrgghh&#8221; in the margins of a paper you&#8217;re trying to understand. I never knew that my lack of training in pathology nomenclature would become such a major problem.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there&#8217;s another grant deadline approaching. How could you tell?<\/p>\n<p>More blogginess at my other blog &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/ennis\/2008\/04\/28\/your-father-was-an-iceman\">a human genetics story with a local flavour <\/a>(not the ubiquitous smoked salmon), and a Python reference.<\/p>\n<p>Geez I need to cut down on caffeine.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add: shortly after posting the above, I was chatting to my boss at my desk and he picked up the scribbled-on paper and started to browse through it. Worried about the aaarrgghh! note, I preemptively said I was having trouble with the nomenclature, and apparently it&#8217;s not just me, the whole field is hopelessly confused and needs to be standardised. So now I don&#8217;t feel so dumb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently I&#8217;m feeling bloggier now. It is not a good sign when you write &#8220;aaarrgghh&#8221; in the margins of a paper you&#8217;re trying to understand. I never knew that my lack of training in pathology nomenclature would become such a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/04\/29\/the-margins-of-scientific-understanding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grant-wrangling","category-science","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}