Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27

Upgraded to wordpress 3.0 & installed twentyten theme – from bland 2 beautiful w/custom header in 3 minutes. Wonderful! http://bit.ly/avSDKL #
@biochembelle thanks! in reply to biochembelle #
@NerdyScienceMom I can barely thread a needle with my glasses on (which are for distance!). Good luck with the new hobby in reply to NerdyScienceMom #
@NerdyScienceMom yeah, I'm [...]

Publications Part 4: What to do once you’ve read a scientific paper.

I’m going to write a series of posts on the black art of scientific publications.  I’m planning a journal based exercise for one of my classes next year and need to provide some information on what journals are and why they are.  I thought the best way to help me think about this was to write [...]

Publications Part 3: Reading a Scientific Paper

I’m going to write a series of posts on the black art of scientific publications.  I’m planning a journal based exercise for one of my classes next year and need to provide some information on what journals are and why they are.  I thought the best way to help me think about this was to write [...]

Publications Part 2: Structure of a Scientific Paper

I’m going to write a series of posts on the black art of scientific publications.  I’m planning a journal based exercise for one of my classes next year and need to provide some information on what journals are and why they are.  I thought the best way to help me think about this was to write [...]

Publications Part 1: The what and why of a scientific publication

I’m going to write a series of posts on the black art of scientific publications.  I’m planning a journal based exercise for one of my classes next year and need to provide some information on what journals are and why they are.  I thought the best way to help me think about this was to write [...]

Twitter Updates for 2010-06-15

Grant application writing making my head spin – what is the difference between tandem and sequential, and does anyone really care? #
@robajackson I was really just waiting for someone to start with the bike jokes in reply to robajackson #
@AntArch yes. Plugging away at Leverhulme app now, once its gone I'm starting my [...]

Chemistry Software: Free vs Paid

It occurred to me the other day that much of the software I use for chemistry work related things are freeware.  It also occurred to me that in each case, I also have  a paid for version.  But how do they really compare?

1. Chemical Structure Drawing:

I have ChemOffice 2005 (paid), ACD Labs 12.0 (free but not installed [...]

Stuff I linked to on Twitter last week

A BBC Article on the sentiment and reason behind the ‘Anyone But England’ t-shirts and attitude.

A post by David Bradley over at ScienceBase on the relative size of major oil spills.

It was a busy week in the real world so a quiet week in the [...]

Stuff I linked to on Twitter this week

The marking-meeting marathon that is the end of semester is nearly over so I’m hoping to write some actual real live blog posts sometime soon. Until then, here are some links for interesting reading.

Via Kristin Alford on twitter, an interesting article on the psychology of visible pollution, or why the Deep Water Horizon oil spill [...]