Repost: Don't Crack
Category: Cycling
"Cracking" differs in that it implies a psychological component. There's a lesson for research careers in here somewhere.
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July 31, 2009
Category: Cycling
"Cracking" differs in that it implies a psychological component. There's a lesson for research careers in here somewhere.
Posted by bikemonkey at 5:53 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: LinkLove
some reading, in case you are bored.
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:05 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 30, 2009
Category: Animals in Research
"Then they came for the fruit-fly researchers, but by that time there was nobody left to speak up for me."
Posted by DrugMonkey at 2:36 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Public Health
This is why you say things like "And, as we know, AIDS remained confined to gays and needle-using druggies-not the general population which they tried to frighten us into believing would be infested."
Posted by DrugMonkey at 9:22 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 29, 2009
Category: NIH Budgets and Economics
Apparently the scores for those hurriedly prepared RC1 applications are starting to appear and boy o boy is everyone perplexed about outcome. No fear....writedit to the rescue! The comments following writedit's post "RC1 Scores & Remaining Review Procedures" are off...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 6:59 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: MDMA
It isn't a bad idea. I just happen to think that it may be a little naive when it comes to the more contentious topics.
Posted by DrugMonkey at 3:35 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2009
Category: Animals in Research
The Speaking of Research group has posted an open letter criticizing an analysis of research redundancy which forms the backbone of a USDA complaint authored by an ARA extremist*. The open letter points up the essential vapidity of the complaint...
Posted by DrugMonkey at 2:18 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conduct of Science
Female Science Professor has two interesting posts up yesterday and today concerning allocating investigator effort and other costs to Federal research grants. Her basic gripe is that university and granting agency officials are forcing her to lie and/or pretend that...
Posted by PhysioProf at 12:58 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 27, 2009
Category: Blogging
amazingly enough, the parrot targeting system works as well as any to rank the proposals in your pile of fellowship applications
Posted by DrugMonkey at 5:56 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Public Health
"They would write things on the chalkboard in his barracks like 'John Needham is a shit bag cry baby PTSD boohoo,'" his father said.
Posted by DrugMonkey at 1:11 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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