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• November 23, 2009

• The Quantum Pontiff

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  The 1/6th People @EricRWeinstein is at it again in twitterland, this time on the subject of the funding of science. For an intriguing read about the glut of Ph.D.s versus science funding, he links to his (circa 1998?) article titled: "How and Why...

• November 21, 2009

• The Scientific Activist

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  Rhodes Secretary: Wall Street Megabonuses Draining Our Young Talent In the op-ed pages of The Washington Post today, Elliot Gerson--the American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust--takes a bold stand.

• November 20, 2009

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program...

• November 19, 2009

• Transcription and Translation

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  Fourty two* and still in need of mentoring? ... the NIH should not give young investigators a break ... because they are full of crap?!?!!!

• Transcription and Translation

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  Scientific Careers and Job Security From Study Finds Science Pipeline Strong, But Losing Top Students, Science 30 October 2009: Vol. 326. no. 5953, p. 654 A new study finds little evidence for leaks in the U.S. pipeline for producing native-born scientists except for a steep...

• The World's Fair

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  Sabbatical home exchange - tricks of the trade? So I'm based in Vancouver, Canada, and will be heading off to London, UK in July 2010, and I'm curious to hear any advice on how to best increase your chances for that low maintenance sabbatical house swap. I've done...

• November 18, 2009

• On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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  Ask Dr. Isis - How Do I Convince a Young Girl That Math = Hot? I'm back to my list of Ask Dr. Isis email. Next up in the queue is this one: Dr. Isis, I'm a regular lurker at your blog who is writing on behalf of my mother - she's a fourth grade...

• Christina's LIS Rant

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  Is the run away from “librarian” and “library” a conflict between 2nd and 3rd wave feminists? Let me start by quoting an e-mail Dawn Pointer McCleskey sent to the SLA-DC listserv today (I have her permission). This is in reply to an e-mail from a younger member who mentioned how teachers and nurses have reclaimed their...

• DrugMonkey

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  Repost: A Modest Proposal on Impact Factors People argue back and forth over whether Impact Factor of journals, the h-index, Total Cites, specific paper cites, etc should be used as the primary assessment of scientific quality. Many folks talk out of both sides of their mouths, bemoaning the irrelevance of journal Impact Factor while beavering away to get their papers into those journals and using the criterion to judge others. In this you will note people arguing the case that makes their CV look the best. I have a proposal:

• The Primate Diaries

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  Want To Be Featured On This Blog and Foil Creationists? PZ has information that Ray Comfort and his merry band of misfits have changed their plans and are passing out their Origin of Species propaganda today. You should go and get a copy right away. They're most likely located...

• November 17, 2009

• Sciencewomen

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  Tips from the top: Mentoring is really, super important to help people succeed. Recently I had the opportunity to attend a talk by Gail Cassell, a member of the National Academies' Institute of Medicine, and one of the authors of the NAS report Rising Above the Gathering Storm. Dr. Cassell is currently Vice...

• DrugMonkey

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  On Developing a Research Grant Proposal To contrast with PhysioProf, I think the ordering of events is not strictly dependent on specific subfield. In my case it has to do with ongoing specific circumstances in the laboratory and my ongoing research findings and interests.

• The World's Fair

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  A daily log of concerns by a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. A humour piece by David Grimes which wonders what you'd hear if you could listen in on the thoughts of such a scientist on a minute by minute basis. Here is the start but it's worth a read all the...

• November 16, 2009

• DrugMonkey

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  Discussing Talent and Luck Not only because it is the source of some of my own queasiness when reading (and trying to discuss) Gladwell, but also because I fall into this trap when talking about science careers.

• November 15, 2009

• Sciencewomen

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  Hi. I'm boring. (But there's a beautiful necklace at the end.) I even stole the title from Lady Scientist, because I am just that original these days. I spent the week teaching, advising, mothering, and making some progress on my InaDWriMo goals for the month. As of last week the goals...

• A Blog Around The Clock

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  The Open Laboratory 2009 - one of the last calls for submission! Reminder: Deadline is December 1st at midnight EST! Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date (under the fold). You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more...

• November 14, 2009

• On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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  Guidelines for Emailing Dr. Isis (ie, Don't Make Me Smack a Bitch) I love you, little chickens. You know that I do. That's why I answer your emails. Still, some of you are making me lose my fucking mind! Figure 1: An artist's rendition of Dr. Isis answering some of your emails....

• November 13, 2009

• On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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  A Digital Place for Women in Science Recently I received the following email from appropriately worshiping reader Victoria: Hello Dr. Isis, I've been following your blog for a while and I love it! I'm writing to you now because I'm a postdoc and just returned from a...

• November 12, 2009

• Sciencewomen

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  Ask sciencewomen: If I'm happy with an MS, should I get a PhD? From the mailbag: I have a Masters in Biology (from a 5 year BS/MS program) and for the past 4 years I've been working as a lab manager/technician. I have my own research project(s) in addition to keeping track of...

• November 8, 2009

• Sciencewomen

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  What I'm working on I'm not going to apologize about lack of posting over the last month or so, and I'm not going to make any promises for the future. That said, here's what I'm up to for InaDWriMo this month. Here's what I...

• November 6, 2009

• DrugMonkey

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  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)

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  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

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  Map That Campus XLIX It's that time again. Here's this week's mystery campus:

• October 28, 2009

• DrugMonkey

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  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

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  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...

Hurricanes

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.

The Island of DoubtJuly 25, 2006

The real story of the hurricanes

Neuron Culture September 11, 2008

Hurricanes & Climate Change: A Round-Up Says Maybe More, Definitely Hotter

Corpus Callosum September 12, 2008

What Ike Really Means; Introducing Integrated Kinetic Energy

See Also:

Cribsheet: Hurricanes
Seed’s downloadable science guide