Scholarly communication

A couple of weeks ago I went to Washington D.C. to talk about scientists and the internet at the Allen Press seminar. I shared the session slot with Andrea Powell …

I mentioned earlier that I had found an error in my thesis. The table numbers in one chapter were off. Man, I’ve told everyone about it. Everyone who saw the …

I’m right in the middle of two days of evaluating student presentations. They’re 10 minute talks about the fourth year research projects they did. Yesterday I evaluated fifteen speakers, and …

After 6.5 years in Canadaland, I forgot that I learned some new words while here. Not many – about 2 per year – and most of them Canadian or otherwise …

Prologue: I have been working on this blog post about failure for months and kept cutting bits out of it because it was so long and boring. This is actually …

I’ve always felt that I wasn’t creative enough in the lab. If protocols say to add 24 ul and wait 5 minutes, I will do just that. Sometimes I’m lazy …