Science life and careers

Look what I picked up today! My bound PhD thesis! I got lots of comments about the colour: “It’s red!” “That’s a very bold colour.” “Wow, red! With gold letters!” …

I still have the keys to the lab. Well, they’re not “keys”, they’re two magnetic cards. The one for the hospital is probably blocked by now, but I’m pretty sure …

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 …

Many congratulations to Shirley Wu and Russ Altman, who won Nature Network’s Science Blogging Challenge and have secured a spot at SciFoo this summer! (They’re also getting all expenses paid …

I know I owe you two more days of play by play conference updates, but here is something much more interesting, about the internet as a community. A lot was …

I squeezed my way into the Friday Fermentable Science Online 09 edition. Abel Pharmboy would like it to be liveblogged. I’m not much of a liveblogger, but for him it’s …