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November 6, 2009
DrugMonkey
What to do when recruitment promises evaporate? As I have noted before, if there is one modal complaint of the newly hired Assistant Professor in the laboratory sciences... ...(i)t boils down to a failure of the hiring University to live up to the spirit (and even letter)...
November 2, 2009
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Fork Lift Accident Brings Down The Warehouse This video is one of those where you find yourself laughing while you secretly hope that this will never be you.
October 30, 2009
Transcription and Translation
Map That Campus XLIX It's that time again. Here's this week's mystery campus:
October 28, 2009
DrugMonkey
Finally, a half-decent assessment of the New Investigator situation in NIHland Whenever you have actual people making decisions about things, you have bias. Pretending that people are not biased evaluators is just plain stupid. (Plus, it reflects a willing ignorance of a wealth of psychological studies and that is just annoying.)
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Ask Dr. Isis - Red Pumps for My Plenary Lecture? I received this email last week and we touched on it in my Shoe of the Week post. I liked the choice the author ended up making, so I didn't rush to answer her question formally. Still, I wanted to...
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
PhysioProf's Coloring Book for Children and Academic Scientists Figure 1: Because, as I am told, academic science is not a care bears fucking tea party.Although, it's interesting to see which bear did win....
October 22, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
Open Access Week in Serbia Open Access Week is in full swing and there is a lot of blogging about its various events in many countries. OA week was marked in Serbia this year as well. As you may remember, I went to Belgrade twice...
October 21, 2009
Uncertain Principles
What Our CV's Say About Our Profession As mentioned on Twitter, I spent much of yesterday reading and rating a huge number of grant proposals. As such, I've looked at a lot of CV's and resumes, and the contrast is striking. People who work in industry tend...
October 20, 2009
DrugMonkey
Hispanic-y Shenanigans from NIGMS I was going to just add this as a late addendum to the Diversity in Science Blog Carnival #3 in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. Since this involves the NIH IC that focuses so much energy on enhancing diversity in...
October 17, 2009
The Book of Trogool
Graft or hybridize? I've lived all my short career in academic libraries thus far on the new-service frontier. In so doing, I've looked around and learned a bit about how academic libraries, research libraries in particular, tend to manage new services. With apologies...
October 16, 2009
DrugMonkey
Diversity in Science Carnival #3: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month Welcome to the 3rd edition of the Diversity in Science Blog Carnival! This Carnival was created by D.N. Lee of the Urban Science Adventures! blog with additional impetus from acmegirl of the Thesis- With Children blog. In early 2009 D.N....
October 15, 2009
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Ask Dr. Isis - the Three Body Problem... Oh, has Dr. Isis got a secret for you!!! I can't tell you who, because I have been sworn to secrecy, but one of you little muffins has a bun in her...muffin? A croissant in her bun? A bun in...
Christina's LIS Rant
I'm a librarian dammit My primary professional society, SLA, has been going through this big "align in 2009" business. They've decided we need a new name because CEOs of corporations don't understand what librarians do. So here it is: Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionalswhich...
bioephemera
Awesome part-time opportunity for cell/microbiologists 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...
October 14, 2009
bioephemera
2010 Stetten Fellowship in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology or Medicine (NIH) 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...
October 11, 2009
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Assistant Professor Position in Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Purdue One of my favorite little birdies emailed me this morning to tell me about a position at his/her institution that my readers might have some interest in. Here is the standard language from the ad in Science: The Department of...
October 9, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
New jobs in North Carolina at CREE, producing LED lights Yesterday, North Carolinians woke up to some very unpleasant news that Dell decided to close its computer manufacturing plant in Winston-Salem, Forsyth Co, NC by the end of this year and lay off its entire workforce of 905 employees. While...
DrugMonkey
Responsible Conduct of Research: Behaviorism to the Rescue (at last) If we want to minimize research misconduct, changing those systematic contingencies is going to have far more impact than is repeated, duplicative and trivial (and occasionally ridiculous) education of individual scientists.
October 8, 2009
Sciencewomen
From tropical forests to peer mentoring, Erika Marin-Spiotta is an emerging force in Earth Science After tropical forests are cleared for agriculture and then abandoned, secondary forests regrow on the site. But how do plant species composition, biomass and soil organic matter differ through this succession of primary forest, pasture, and secondary forest? Employing...
October 6, 2009
Sciencewomen
Allocation of research time to thinking versus doing. Discuss. I'm preparing material for this week's class on experimental design and data analysis, and I ran across this paragraph which I thought was very interesting: "The cost of analyzing collected sediment samples usually exceeds that of collecting them. However, the...
October 5, 2009
The Quantum Pontiff
Caltech IQI Postdocs Postdocs at Caltech's IQI. Now in the new Annenberg Center (named, of course, after Caltech's Ann of the Steele tower :) ):INSTITUTE FOR QUANTUM INFORMATION CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Postdoctoral Research Positions The Institute for Quantum Information at the California...
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Resources for Establishing a Meaningful Mentoring Relationship I think that many of us go into mentoring relationships assuming the conversations will be easy and natural, that both will have a mutual understanding and trust and that the mentor and mentee relationship will occur seamlessly and each party...
October 4, 2009
A Blog Around The Clock
The Open Laboratory 2009 - the submissions so far Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 390 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007...
October 3, 2009
Sciencewomen
A job doing atmospheric research in your bunny slippers! This job ad from Katherine Hayhoe, amazing climate scientist and one of my favorite Twitter people, is EXACTLY the sort of career opportunity that we need to see more of. The realities of our world are that many of us...
October 2, 2009
DrugMonkey
Blogrolling: On the Market: Fumbling Towards Tenure Track I think you will like this one, Dear Reader. The author is: ..a neuroscience post-doc in New York City, about to go on the tenure-track job market in earnest. My journey will likely begin as a comedy of errors, but...
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As the 2009 hurricane season picks up speed after a remarkably mild beginning, we look to the ScienceBlogs archives for the science behind the storms.
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