Have you ever wished your workplace would be a more social place? A place where, sure, you have to work hard, but you can also have a chat or a laugh with people you like being around? Below are several ideas to help you transform your lab into a nicer place to spend your time.…
This is a guest post by Dr Mehwaesh Islam, Policy Officer at the Academy of Medical Sciences, London, UK.
Note: the author has done extensive research and tested all methods below in the process of writing this blog. Therefore this blog actually made it out in February as opposed to some time later this year…
We are now well into the New Year. You may have started out with many good resolutions; maybe you have joined the gym, given up smoking, started running or cycling to the lab. You have probably told yourself that this year, you will give up procrastinating, and you will finish that paper/grant proposal/your thesis….
Following yesterday’s UK budget announcement by Chancellor George Osborne, we look at the implications for UK life scientists and those thinking of embarking on a PhD.
Last Thursday 28th November, Eva Amsen (Outreach Director, F1000Research) and I visited the beautiful city of Heidelberg, Germany to connect with researchers, F1000 Specialists and Faculty in the local area. We first headed to DKFZ to support F1000 Specialist and post-doctoral drosophilist Jerome Korzelius with his talk on F1000Prime and how it helps him keep…
Daylight savings gave us an extra hour recently, and I’m already short on time. We scientists never have enough minutes in the day to get everything done. If only we could clone ourselves, we’d be golden. As previously mentioned, before taking up the Outreach Director position at F1000Prime, I was a scientist at Stonybrook University…
Via F1000 Member Earl Miller on twitter comes a nomination for an Ig Nobel prize: a note in Neuropsychologia, Thinking of God moves attention10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.029. The authors, at the University of Toronto, looked at target detection responses of people, finding faster responses when concepts of God or Devil were associated, respectively, with up/right or down/left spatial…
Web of Stories has just released new footage of an interview with Marvin Minsky: Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, inventor of the confocal microscope, and co-founder of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (among other things).
O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. –William Blake Peter Lawrence has weighed into the debate on the state of research in an article for Lab Times, boldly…
