Sci was racing through the corridors of her MRU the other day, taking piles of papers hither and yon, and generally taking care of business. She was on her way out when she saw a girl (she was young and tiny, though probably over 21) come flying out of the bathroom and take up a […]
My Dearest Pubmed, You and I have always had our ups and downs, like that time when you were down for 24 hours for NO REASON AT ALL, and the times when you return me hilarious responses to my admittedly rather silly searches (like the time I puts “peeps” into pubmed. Try it sometime). But […]
A few days ago (ok, maybe it was more than that, the days kind of blur together), Sci got an email in her inbox, and the instant she got it…she knew she had to address the crowd. For it went like this: O neuroscientist-who-have-come-before-me, I am a neurobiology undergrad. I am looking at graduate programs. […]
Duh nuh… Duh nuh, duh nuh…. Duh nuh, duh nuh, Duh nuh, duh nuh, Duh nuh, duh nuh, Duhnuh, duhnuh, Duhnuh, duhnuh… IT’S HERE!!!! IT’S ALIVEEEEE!!!! IT’S OPEN LAB!!!! YES! It’s out. Finally. After a great deal of toil and a certain amount of lateness. Also stress. And there was very little sleep. You can […]
Ah, the Holiday Season. In the US, beginning around…midnight directly following the Thanksgiving festivities, the holiday stuff comes out. Suddenly, a normal middle America city is transformed (or at least, its downtown is transformed) with Christmas trees and whatever sparkly candy canes or angels they have hanging from all of the street lamps. And into […]
A few months ago, Sci had a secret shame. A secret, secret shame. For Sci is a science blogger, and blogs on Scienceblogs and… …didn’t know ANYTHING about evolution. Ok, perhaps that wasn’t exactly true. But Sci’s a physiologist, not an evolutionary biologist. I studied neuroanatomy, not HOW that neuroanatomy evolved. In my day to […]
Often, Sci gets books, and even though she’s totally excited about them, has to move them to the bottom of the pile, in a vain effort to go through things in the order she receives them, and try to stay on top of it all (there’s a pile of books next to Sci’s bed a […]
Dearest High and Mighty Journal to Whom I Wish to Submit My Manuscript and Thereby Become Famous: Greetings, from your most humble supplicant. Verily, I have polished my manuscript. It is a thing of beauty. It is within your rather arbitrary and extremely paltry word limits, for truly, this humble scientist understands that succinctness and […]
Sci will admit that blogging SFN has been harder than she thought it would be. This is partially due to the lack of wireless on the poster floor (which would be REALLY hard to remedy), and partially due to…exhaustion. By the end of the second or third day, the posters all begin to blur before […]