
People need to spend more time reading the scientific literature. Continue reading

People need to spend more time reading the scientific literature. Continue reading

Seeing the faces of the current crop of ERC Starting Grant awardees (congratulations everybody!) made me realise that I’m not an early career researcher any more. Continue reading

PhD students are essential components of junior research groups – but who’s really the master, and who’s the apprentice? Continue reading

A look back at our 6th record-breaking year, and a big thanks to all of you out there. Continue reading

One of the most common tropes in art is about people following their dreams, or being encouraged to do so. There’ll be a scene with a chance encounter and a conversation that eventually arrives at the question: what did you want to be? Why did you stop trying? And then: Why not try now? Continue reading

What makes dealing with peer review so difficult is that it forces us to confront the worst conception of ourselves. Continue reading

I’ve been thinking about Ole Gunnar Solskjaer a lot in the last week… Continue reading

Scientists like to claim – rightly – that they’re free to do research into whatever takes their fancy, but getting funding for it is a different matter. Continue reading

The Movember Foundation is a charity dedicating to raising awareness of men’s health issues such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and mental health. As part of the annual Movember event we’ve been running a series celebrating the magnificent moustaches of the men in white coats – a salute to some great minds, and the moustaches that went (just before them). Links to parts I-IV of this series can be found at the end of the posting. Continue reading

What if scientific English took famous authors as its style template? Continue reading