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November 27, 2008
Category: Careerism
A key element of any faculty job application is the applicant's Research Plan, the document that search committees use to get a sense of what she might do in her new lab, and her ability to argue coherently for the...
Posted by PhysioProf at 5:28 PM • 68 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
On this day of thanks, I am grateful to you Dear Reader, for stopping by to read. For those of you compelled to comment, I offer my specific thanks for without a conversation this blogging stuff would be far duller....
Posted by DrugMonkey at 4:28 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 26, 2008
Category: Spawn
The good Dr. Isis has posted her concern that recent developmental advances exhibited by Little Isis will permanently ruin Dr. Isis' sleep. Little Isis is no longer contained by the four walls of his crib and Dr. Isis awoke to...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 6:20 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 25, 2008
Category: General Politics
Congressmen serving on committees dealing with aspects of research...are often well disposed toward support of scientific research...they cannot afford...to become vulnerable. They must take into account tides of public opinion. As a partisan document, the article is a triumph. Research...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 7:08 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Careerism
In a recent post on 49 percent, Samia asks a tricky question: Wouldn't it be easier to land a faculty position/eventual tenure if I operated like a state scientist and established myself as an expert in one teeny, tiny area?...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 9:16 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 24, 2008
Category: Tribe of Science
If I'd thought about it for a half a second I would have realized that reference to tribe is inflammatory to many science and academic bloggers and readers of same. I mean, let's face it, we are disproportionately those who...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 2:15 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
If you will recall their was a lot of hoopla surrounding the One Millionth Comment milestone including some local blogger/reader meetup parties and a prize drawing from the mothership. The grand prize was a trip to NYC with assorted wining...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 11:54 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 23, 2008
Category: Conduct of Science
There has been substantial recent lamentation concerning the nature of scientific publishing, and the perceived requirement that experimental results "tell a story" in order to be published in the peer-reviewed literature. For example, The Bean Mom recently stated the following:...
Posted by PhysioProf at 2:23 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2008
Category: Cognition
"Defective Man A. Age, 45 years. ....Ranch laborer in the experimenter's employ... nervous suspicious, "muddled" person, with a grievance against society in general, and a surprising fund of self-acquired misinterpretations relating to social environment. He expressed a belief that my experiment was dangerous meddling with the human mind... constant dread of apparatus...labored under a suspicion that it was not the simple structure that it pretended to be"
Posted by DrugMonkey at 10:33 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 21, 2008
Friend of the DoucheMonkey blog Sol Rivlin had the following to say in response to other friend of the blog Isis the Scientist's query to her minions regarding how to handle unexpected or unplanned experimental outcomes when writing them up...
Posted by PhysioProf at 8:21 PM • 53 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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