Good mentoring offers a rebuke to the cynicism of the Red Queens.
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A letter to a friend
Dear Ruth,
I’m very sorry that you were unhappy about the recent postings on the blog and the generally negative tone that has characterised a lot of the recent material. I’m also very sorry if you, as a fellow group leader, felt that you were being accused of exploiting the students in your care.
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Never to play The Dane
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
Lip service and walking the walk
The Natalie Portman – Rose McGowan spat illustrates a fundamental difference in activist behaviour. Continue reading
An ingrate and a hypocrite
Randy Schekman bit the hand that fed him. He should be applauded. Continue reading
Learning the lingo
Should there be a kind of “jury service” for young faculty on grant funding panels? Continue reading
Manumission
“It was a fact of life that there was no crueller master than an ex-slave” (Robert Harris, “Pompeii”). Continue reading
Total Internal Reflection 