It all started with a little tweet, asking you to tell me your favourite science joke. Dozens of comments later, I’m going to have to ask you to stop… please. There were a lot of jokes, some funnier than others, some apparently from a site on the internet (yes, I recognize them) and a few…

This is a condensed excerpt from my upcoming book, The Golden Ticket In Science: Funding and Recognition Through The Power of Marketing. How are you like a laundry detergent? I

The contemporary arts curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist once said that the most important things at a conference happen in the coffee breaks. He famously took this observation to its logical conclusion by running a science/arts event, “Art & Brain” that was essentially an extended coffee break.

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Guest post: Paula Salgado, a structural biologist in Steve Matthew’s lab at Imperial College London, describes her experience of the “I’m a Scientist, get me out of here!” event that concluded last Friday. As 3.30pm on Friday 25th June approached and I found myself in a workshop, away from my computer, I was anxiously waiting…

Guest post: Paula Salgado, a structural biologist in Steve Matthew’s lab at Imperial College London, describes her experience of the “I’m a Scientist, get me out of here!” event that concluded last Friday. As 3.30pm on Friday 25th June approached and I found myself in a workshop, away from my computer, I was anxiously waiting…

Last week I wondered about the stereotypical scientist with no dress sense, social skills or cultural awareness. It’s more accurate to say that non-scientists generally have no awareness of science (Brian Cox in the Guardian this week: “it’s still acceptable for people in this country to say, almost as an aside, while drinking their claret,…

I always have been against big science. I think it’s mostly a waste of money and all the history of science shows us that it never leads to the attempted goal. Jan Klein, the Czech-American immunologist, co-founded the modern science of immunogenetics. He is the author or co-author of over 560 scientific publications and of…

CDC paper downplays XMRV, chronic fatigue link

You’ve heard the one about the two atoms walking down the street? No? How about when Professor Heisenberg gets stopped for speeding? What’s your favourite science joke? I’m giving away an F1000 sweatshirt to the funniest and/or one that makes me groan the most, and a copy of My life in Science to the runner-up.…