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The science of the cat in your computer: our journey into crowdfunded sequencing of LilBUB

Posted by , on 27 April 2015

About a year ago – when spending some quality afterwork time on the Internet – me and my benchmate Dario stumbled upon LilBUB. If you’re an internet cat afficionado you’ve probably ...

A response to NIH-RFI on funding policies and sustainability of biomedical research

Posted by , on 24 April 2015

Currently NIH has put out a request for information (RFI) to solicit input from the scientific community regarding “Optimizing Funding Policies and Other Strategies to Improve the Impact and Sustainability ...

England, embryos, and axial columns: a Travelling Fellowship connecting Chicago to Cambridge

Posted by , on 21 April 2015

Greetings from Chicago! My name is Kate Criswell and I am a graduate student at the University of Chicago, working with Dr. Mike Coates on axial column evolution and development ...

''The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.'' - The Nurse review of science funding.

Posted by , on 10 April 2015

The following is my response to the Nurse review on scientific funding call for evidence: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/nurse-review-of-research-councils-call-for-evidence Now he has lots of free time(!) having stepped down from running the Royal ...

Graduate students take on The Hill

Posted by , on 25 March 2015

On March 18, 2015, 24 graduate student scientists from twelve graduate programs across the country descended on Capitol Hill. We represented the National Science Policy Group, a network of graduate ...

BSDB Gurdon Summer Studenships – DEADLINE!

Posted by , on 12 March 2015

End of March is the application deadline for the Gurdon Studentship scheme. This scheme provides financial support to allow highly motivated undergraduate students an opportunity to engage in practical research ...

The Future of Research Symposium:

The Funding of Research

Posted by , on 1 October 2014

This is the last of four posts relating to the Future of Research symposium which was announced in a previous blog post. Each of these posts will discuss a topic ...

Do you want to visit a collaborators lab? Apply for a travelling fellowship!

Posted by , on 7 August 2014

Are you a postdoc or student planning to visit a collaborators lab? Then apply for a Development travelling fellowship! You can be awarded up to £2,500 (or currency equivalent) to offset travel costs ...

Of mice and zebrafish

Posted by , on 16 June 2014

This story starts with me shaking and nervous and stumbling through my mid-term thesis committee meeting presentation. Not only was I presenting the results from the first half of my ...

Development Travelling Fellowship: a node connecting Woods Hole with the Stowers Institute

Posted by , on 10 June 2014

June 1st, 2014: Exactly one year after my departure flight from Bologna to Boston to attend the 2013 MBL Embryology course held at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, ...

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