We all love prizes. As promised, I’m giving away an awesomely awesome Naturally Selected sweatshirt, modelled here by Eva, for the best comment this month (in my opinion). And the winner is
I still have a box of Sydney Brenner’s My Life in Science to give away. So, in an effort to reduce the pile, can you tell me what this is?
A quick roundup of good news from F1000. We’re pleased to announce that the following Faculty Members have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society:
Competition time! I have a book prize for the first reader to tell me (in the comments, below) who said I
One of the things I did as a student to supplement the meagre maintenance grant involved driving tractors around and tying up clematis. Not a wholly unpleasant time, to be honest, although it was the overtime that really made it worthwhile. Then came the summer when I couldn’t get the gig at the plant nursery,…
One of the things I did as a student to supplement the meagre maintenance grant involved driving tractors around and tying up clematis. Not a wholly unpleasant time, to be honest, although it was the overtime that really made it worthwhile. Then came the summer when I couldn’t get the gig at the plant nursery,…
Three’s a crowd Who would have thought that plants could teach us about deafness? Or single-celled yeast about blood vessel development? Orthologous genes in different species can have totally different effects, and a statistical data-mining technique has thrown up not a few surprising models for human disease. The paper is free at PNAS and reviewed…
Three’s a crowd Who would have thought that plants could teach us about deafness? Or single-celled yeast about blood vessel development? Orthologous genes in different species can have totally different effects, and a statistical data-mining technique has thrown up not a few surprising models for human disease. The paper is free at PNAS and reviewed…
Ever blown up the lab with dry ice? Run protein into blotting buffer or DNA into TBE? Have no fear, just about every practicing scientist in the world has done something equally daft. But for a mistake that possibly, just possibly, says more about the supervisor than the victim, here’s a tweet from Alejandro Montenegro:…
Just a reminder that I’ve extended the deadline for our twitter #scifubar competition until Monday. Post your most embarrassing scientific error or egregious lab-based manipulation to Twitter with the #scifubar hashtag. If you’re too shy to ‘fess up, pretend it was your labmate… The winner gets a bag of F1000 swag, including the much-coveted laser-stylus-pen-torch…
