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
Do your bit
TIR film club: Blade Runner
TIR reimagines Ridley Scott’s dystopian science-fiction classic “Blade Runner” for a modern PhD/postdoc audience. Continue reading
Into battle
Generally, the people who are good at winning wars are not good at winning the peace. Continue reading
Hugging the data wall
Is speculation a sin, or a stimulus? Continue reading
Holiday reading 2018
TIR will be away for the next couple of weeks, so as is now traditional we’re leaving you with a few recommendations for your holiday reading. Some old, some newish, but all page-turners in their own way. Continue reading
New EMBOlism – Resurrection Science
Our latest EMBOlism is now online – we hope this lodges in your brain! There’s references to “Jurassic Park”, chaos theory, genealogy, the British royal family, Jane Eyre, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Pixar, vampires, Albert Szent-Györgyi, and much more…
You can read the text HERE.
A bartender’s guide to the life sciences
A rather silly posting this week, but at this point in the semester everyone needs a drink. If you were a bartender though, which tipple would you offer to each type of life scientist? TIR makes a few suggestions to all the amateur mixologists out there… Continue reading
Angels with dirty faces
Getting research funding is like playing a casino, but it’s not just the house that holds the aces. Continue reading
Who’s at the wheel?
Unthinking reliance on commercial research aids and reagents can cause a debilitating erosion in basic knowledge. Continue reading
A chip off the old block
Supervisors don’t just train you in techniques, to a degree they impart their ideology as well. Continue reading
Total Internal Reflection 