Calendars for 2018 featuring Oliver’s TIR artwork now available!
Author: Brooke Morriswood
TIR silent auction 2017: original artworks, calendars for 2018 on sale – just in time for the holiday season!
Our 2nd auction of Oliver’s amazing artworks is underway. Continue reading
Painted Ladies (a short sketch on gender equality)
What do a group of male chauvinists do when they’re required to improve the gender ratio of their study section? TIR imagines the scene… Continue reading
I’ve seen the future, and it’s salami
Scientific papers have become too long. It’s time to move in the opposite direction. Continue reading
Shaping the mould
Students and postdocs cannot simply be clones of their mentor. Continue reading
Weinstein, Einstein, high time
The sordid revelations about Harvey Weinstein will come as little surprise to those in academia.
Continue readingLab fiends – a spotter’s guide
We recently looked at the Superheroes of the Lab, everyday scientists you’ve probably met who are harbouring different kinds of superpowers. This week, we’ll be looking at their implacable antagonists – the lab fiends.
Take your Time
Life seems to be getting faster and faster in the modern age – we no longer kill time, we try to save it. Continue reading
Superheroes of the lab – a spotter’s guide
The superhero craze shows no sign of abating in Hollywood, but a research lab remains as likely a place as any to find unusual talents (after all, how many Marvel characters were created as a result of experiments?). Here, in the first of a two-part series, is TIR’s guide to the superheroes of the lab – science’s own Suicide Squad? Continue reading
The artisan scientist
There’s a passage in “Lark Rise to Candleford”, Flora Thompson’s eloquent eulogy to pre-industrial Britain, where she recounts staying near Northampton with an aunt. Her aunt’s husband is a shoemaker, one of the many independent artisans of the time plying his trade in laces and leather. Continue reading
Total Internal Reflection 