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Posted by Eva Amsen, on 20 January 2011
A friend of mine went straight from his PhD in computational (pharmaco)chemistry to an investigator position, and I have heard an unconfirmed second-hand story of one other person recently making ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 17 January 2011
I just got back from attending two meetings about academia and the internet – one in person and the second, in true internet style, virtually. Both meetings at one point ...Posted by Linda, on 5 January 2011
But you know he’ll always keep movin’ You know he’s never gonna stop movin’ Cause he’s rollin’, he’s a rollin’ stone ~ Baker Street, by Gerry Rafferty (Link to Song ...Posted by Heather, on 16 December 2010
Webcasting is a new art that is still being perfected, but which holds great promise for scientific collaboration at both small and large scales.Posted by Pablo Astudillo, on 8 December 2010
Scientists don’t spend free time to think about the changes that made possible the birth of a new way to make research. For example, how we moved from a world ...Posted by Fer Casares, on 28 October 2010
I always travel with my suitcase packed with genes. Airports, planes and trains offer me the only instances where I find two hours solid of work, and they (genes) are ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 1 October 2010
In an attempt to tighten the country’s budget, the UK government wants to cut a large number of arms-length non-governmental organisations. These “quangos” (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations) include regulatory bodies, advisory ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 23 September 2010
Thomson Reuters has predicted who they think will walk away with the Nobel Prizes in medicine, chemistry, physics, and economics. Their predictions for the prize for Physiology or Medicine include ...Posted by benoitbruneau, on 19 August 2010
It seems that following on the tracks of Cell Press, which is reducing the maximum number of supplemental figures to one per manuscript figure, now J. Neuroscience is doing away ...