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June 30, 2008
Category: Drug Abuse Science
Greg and Steve (not Adam and Eve) both blogged a recent paper by Degenhardt and (20 other) colleagues in PLoS Medicine. Steve: According to a new survey the USA has highest level of illegal cocaine and cannabis use in the...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 11:11 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cycling
Readers of the old blog on WordPress will recall that I enlisted BikeMonkey to cover the sports-doping beat a time or two on the old blog. Today's news pried him away from his political ranting commenting for a guest appearance....
Posted by DrugMonkey at 7:29 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 27, 2008
Category: Blogging
In which I post link-vomitus just to annoy my co-blogger.
Posted by DrugMonkey at 12:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conduct of Science
Are there any experimental scientists out there advocating for and using open notebooks? Not navel-gazing theoreticians that sit around drinking coffee and making shit up, but actual real scientists: people fucking with shit in a laboratory. Because frankly, "Open Notebook"...
Posted by PhysioProf at 10:56 AM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 26, 2008
Category: Conduct of Science
People are still going on about the completely absurd idea of "opening" working lab notebooks by publishing them on the Web? Who the fuck wants to read someone else's lab notebook? I want to see digested, processed, analyzed data, with...
Posted by PhysioProf at 3:15 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conduct of Science
Jonah Leherer has an interesting post up at The Frontal Cortex in which he discusses the very stereotyped structure of a scientific research article: The vast, vast majority of science articles follow the same basic pattern: abstract, introduction, methods, results,...
Posted by PhysioProf at 1:45 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Careerism
This is a followup to an older entry I recently reposted following a post from the Mad Hatter on alternate careers. I thought perhaps this was relevant to the ongoing discussion we've been having about postdoctoral views on the dismal...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 12:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 25, 2008
Category: Grantsmanship
In a prior post on the post-submission care and feeding of your NIH grant application I touched on the submission of an update just prior to review: You did know you can supply an update to your proposal after submitting...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 5:02 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Careerism
Academia, like many professional career enterprises in the United States, is structured in a winner-takes-all format. Many people enter the enterprise at the bottom level, trickle their way upwards, until a relative few make it to the top and enjoy...
Posted by PhysioProf at 2:44 PM • 65 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 24, 2008
Category: Careerism
Mad Hatter has a post up proposing a blog-based forum for alternative careers. I noticed a long time ago that the top Google hits to this blog are on three posts I wrote on alternative career tracks in academia for...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 2:07 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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