For some reason I’m being bombarded with social networks for scientists lately. First of all: you can call your website a “social network”, but it’s just not a social network …

Time it took me to write two pages of my thesis: about an hour over coffee at the local coffee place. Time it took me to find, print, catalogue, read, …

There’s a group on Facebook called “Six Degrees of Separation”. It was started by writer Steve Jackson, as research for a novel he was writing. In his book he explored …

Jim Thomas came to SciBarCamp as a participant but also took the opportunity to write a great article about it for Science and Public Affairs, for the British Association for …

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 …