One of the cruellest insights a young scientist will receive is how often the working reality of a field is very different to its grand image. Continue reading
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EMBOlism no.1 – science and anarchy
Our first contribution to EMBO Reports is now available online. Is science an example of a functioning anarchy?
You can read it HERE.
Irreducible perplexity
Are molecular biologists under-equipped to defend evolution? Continue reading
Gone to the worms
A tribute to a scientist who was both of his time, and ahead of his time. Continue reading
A Valentine’s to science
A bittersweet message to my beloved. Continue reading
To boldly go
Big science doesn’t have a monopoly on the big questions. Continue reading
Great scientists, great moustaches (a Movember posting)
An appreciative look at some great minds, and the moustaches that went (just) before them.
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
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
Fellow travellers
Science and the arts are often portrayed as polar opposites, but the truth is that they’re far closer than many of their practitioners even realise. Continue reading
Total Internal Reflection 