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12 Things Good Bosses Believe, as retweeted by @biochembelle who suggests that this is a true for academia as it is for business. Tony Grew’s thoughtful article on David Laws as retweeted by many people I follow on Twitter. Highly Allochthonous describes what a ‘Top Kill’ operation is for the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. Following a debate on Twitter [...] Marking season is here, compounded by grant writing season so its hard to write meaningful/thoughtful/barely literate blog post. As I’m hiding from the sun today I’ll make more of an effort, starting with things I linked to or retweeted this week. Friday the 18th of June is Blue Footed Booby Day in aid of the Galapagos [...] I’m going to take a leaf from Allochthonous’s book (or a page from his blog…) and list the stuff I linked to on Twitter this last week here – mainly to keep a record for myself of the things that struck me as funny, neat or otherwise interesting. I’m @kjhaxton on Twitter. “The Evolution of Asshatitude on [...] One of my biggest frustrations about chemistry research is the quantity of time that is spent reinventing the wheel – or perfecting reactions published multiple times previously, or done previously in the research group. This is not necessarily a common problem but as a dendrimer chemist, I need a small set of optimised reactions for each [...] Chemjobber has started a chemistry meme! How could I not play along! (also seen at Carbon-Based Curiosities, the Sceptical Chymist and Chemistry World blog). My favourite things about chemistry: 1. Things like this:that become things like this: after about 1 minute! Elephant’s toothpaste demonstration (hydrogen peroxide, washing up liquid, KI catalyst and a suitable container) – simple, effective chemical [...] This is the first general election I’ve experienced with the “aid” of the internet. By internet I mean twitter and the circle of similar-minded folk that I follow over there. It is, undoubtedly, a microcosm that bears little resemblance to reality. That’s not to say that the folk on twitter aren’t real – they are, just that [...] Just to balance out the previous post in which I declare an abject lack of stamina for science books, here are some books I have finished recently and can thoroughly recommend: Scarlett Thomas “PopCo” and “The End of Mr. Y”: I read PopCo a few months before going to Totnes (where much of the story is set) and [...] It’s getting quite ridiculous - there is a growing pile of half read popular science books both at home and in my office. I think I may have to stop buying them, but I’m interested in the topics even once I give up reading them. I’d like to note that I don’t give up on books very often [...] |
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