DrugMonkey is an NIH-funded biomedical research scientist.
PhysioProf is an NIH-funded basic science faculty member at a private medical school.
August 31, 2008
Category: Science Publication
There have been some discussions lately in the science blogosphere about paper authorship in the biological/biomedical sciences, and I think it would be useful to tie those discussions together and add a few more thoughts here....
Posted by PhysioProf at 1:06 PM • 49 Comments •
August 29, 2008
Category: Diversity in Science
Watching Michelle Obama speak at the Democratic Convention this week was awe inspiring and hope uplifting for many Americans and others worldwide. I was feelin' it myself. But what really hammered home the real message here, for me, was listening...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 2:09 PM • 24 Comments •
August 28, 2008
Category: Blogging
Noah Gray, previously of the Action Potential blog of Nature Neuroscience, skirmisher on the old DM, and occasional punching bag of YHN has started a new blog called Nothing's Shocking at our mortal enemy friendly rival science-blogging-network-thingy place. I've found...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 7:59 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Blogging
Many of you were, like me, a little sad to hear Propter Doc, author of post doc ergo propter doc blog, sign off a few months ago. Well, Propter Doc is back, sortof. Author "KH" has launched a new blog...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:10 PM • 1 Comments •
August 27, 2008
Category: NIH Budgets and Economics
The National Science Foundation has issued an InfoBrief report on some interesting data on science and engineering expenditures by US research institutions for Fiscal Year 2007 [pdf is here]. One way to look at some of these data is that...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 7:57 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Blogging
Is it really only impressive to hit one hundred billion comments? Anyhoo, the OverLordz are anticipating that ScienceBlog readers will offer up the millionth comment in the next few weeks. My requests to have each blog drenched in electronic confetti...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 4:39 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Public Health
I cannot look my political and public health self in the eye if I do not sack up on this one. I endorse the blog format for conveying personal stories of a potentially embarrassing nature if they have the potential...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 2:26 PM • 14 Comments •
August 25, 2008
Category: Day in the life of DrugMonkey
A correspondent asked me a question that seemed simple at first but the more I think on it, the more I realize I have very little insight. The research scientist's Curriculum Vitae (CV; similar to a résumé) contains a listing...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 8:17 PM • 34 Comments •
Category: Mentoring
The comments following a recent post touched on the newly independent investigator dilemma of who to hire first: A postdoctoral fellow or a technician? We'll leave aside the best answer ("both") as impractical because, as Professor in Training noted, I...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:33 PM • 38 Comments •
August 22, 2008
Category: Blogging
For some reason the Pondering blather blog has hovered at the edge of my vision but never come into full focus until today. My bad. Odyssey has been blogging since 2005 apparently including several topics of interest from the very...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 9:46 AM • 42 Comments •
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