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Eating Grad Style: Free Food

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A few weeks ago, Sci posted on making Lab Cuisine. A couple of people responded well to this, and suggested that I post more on cheap eating as a grad student. Sadly, these people are deluded. Sci can't cook. At...

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More challenge grant idiocy from NIH

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One of my close colleagues got on eRA Commons and downloaded the challenge grants she was to review before eRA Commons went down for major upgrades in a majorly untimely fashion. This was a prudent move on her part since...

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Course evaluations and adjuncting limbo

Category: Academia

Some of us survive this crappy job market by working as research assistants and adjuncting on the side. It pays the bills and allows us to expand our professional skills. Usually, though, it's hard to find a lot of satisfaction...

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Reason #1183903 why the NIH is ducking fumb, or GET YOUR CHALLENGE GRANTS NOW

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Why you need to quit screwing around and get your challenge grants

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Scientiae is up!

Category: Academia

Finally, Scientiae is up! It's Sci's first time submitting to the carnival, and I'm very glad that I got in. It's a big one, too, a two part experiment from Endless Possibilities. I highly recommend, especially the ones from The...

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Spring 2009: We have come o far, yet still have so far to go

Category: Academia

Why should I try? Why should I bother with all this red tape and knowing the right people and being nice to them in the right way and making sure you phrase things JUST SO? Why shouldn't I do something else?

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What Makes a Scientist?

Category: Academia

Since I posted a while ago on "why I am a scientist", I've been thinking of what makes a scientist. This has been partially inspired by a post that Laelaps wrote a while ago, on whether to consider himself a...

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The Value of Stupidity: are we doing it right?

Category: Academia

The stupidity of science is constructive, productive stupidity. The kind you get every day in grad school...perhaps not.

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Animal Rights Extremists firebomb researcher's car

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In case you hadn't heard, a UCLA researcher had his car firebombed recently. You can get the story here. The firebombing is one in a series of aggressive acts aimed at university researchers who use animals in medical studies, UCLA...

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On Sciencewoman's teaching experiences and pacing of lectures

Category: Academia

How I deal with the pacing of my lectures. Dirty tricks included.

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