Do you know what it is yet?

My research involves synthesising dendrimers and dendrons, sometimes following literature procedures to make one that has been made before, sometimes combining literature procedures and basic chemical understanding to make something new to science.  In either case (and it doesn’t really matter if you know what a dendrimer or dendron is), a key part of this process is working [...]

Online Identity and the Job Market

I’m a big fan of the idea of online identities.  Like it or not, our internet activities leave a trail that is intrinsically linked with our real world identities. Without buying into the hysteria of bloggers or facebook users being fired because of something they wrote on the internet (and it does happen), the tools to [...]