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Category: Education
Louis Menand has a must-read article on what's wrong with graduate education in the Harvard Magazine: Lives are warped because of the length and uncertainty of the doctoral education process. Many people drop in and drop out and then drop...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:25 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
For all my microbiology/cell biology peeps, this could be a neat opportunity. ASCB has obtained a two-year stimulus grant from NIH to assemble an image library of the cell. According to Caroline Kane, project PI and professor emerita at UC-Berkeley...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:16 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medical Illustration and History
Just saw this posting: The Stetten Fellowship seeks to encourage postdoctoral historical research and publication about biomedical sciences and technology and medicine that has been funded by NIH since 1945. Fellowships carry a stipend in the range of $45,000 per...
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Category: Blogosphere
As you'll have noticed by now, I'm not doing a BioE DonorsChoose challenge this year. It was a really tough decision, but I currently have neither the time nor the spare cash to do a DonorsChoose promotion proper justice. Fortunately,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:53 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
Stanley Fish writes a provocative essay in the NYT on whether curiosity is tantamount to "a mental disorder," or even a sin: Give this indictment of men in love with their own capacities a positive twist and it becomes...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:36 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
An excellent post from language log: I propose a voluntary ban on the use of generic plurals to express statistical differences, especially in talking to the general public about scientific results in areas with public policy implications.In other words, when...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:47 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Okay, if you're anything like me, you don't have time to read the blogs you already follow. But I do recommend that everyone head over to SEED's Revolutionary Minds Think Tank, where Greg Smith is guiding a conversation on...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:19 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Perfect for kids, teachers, or paleontologists, this "Paleobet" by artist Rosemary Mosco is cute and educational! You can buy a Paleobet print here. Thanks to reader Laura for the find!...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:09 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ephemera
Can we trust that the "Theory of Everything" (in economics, physics, or any other field) turn out to be beautiful?
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Category: Blogosphere
For me, back-to-school shopping was always accompanied by a frisson of anticipation and excitement. It was the only time of year I actually got to go on a shameless shopping spree - which required leaving town and adventuring an...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:35 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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