I went to a lecture by Oliver Smithies this morning. I most enjoyed his stories of things that didn’t work. His PhD thesis that nobody ever read, his inventions that …
I’m making a little video about lab waste. The whole thing will be thrown online under a Creative Commons license when it’s done, and right now I’m also using about …
I’m at Subtle Technologies this weekend. It’s a festival combining art and science, with an underlying theme. This year’s theme is light, so the talks are about ways in which …
My department is celebrating its 100th birthday with a symposium this week. One of the highlights of today’s talks was this snippet on lab safety from Marian Packham, who was …
It just occurred to me that I’m going to have to learn how to put references in my thesis. I don’t have EndNote, but I have free institutional access to …
To close this series of posts, a summary of the full collaborative discussion about the things everyone should know about science, from online suggestions to in-person interactive activities to panel …
