Please welcome our newest tenure on the guest blog, Unlikely Grad! She brings a really new and interesting perspective to academia, and I think she’s going to bring something cool to our guest blog, too! Head over and say hello!
Please welcome our newest tenure on the guest blog, Unlikely Grad! She brings a really new and interesting perspective to academia, and I think she’s going to bring something cool to our guest blog, too! Head over and say hello!
Think of a political candidate you like. Maybe you agree with their politics. Maybe they have a very open and honest demeanor. Maybe they have lots of qualities that you think would make them a good leader. You would follow them if they led…but would you follow them if they looked? (Source) Liuzza et al. […]
It never fails. Every professional development seminar I go to, one of the big bullet points is “NETWORK!”. I see seminars on “Networking: let us maximize your LinkedIn Potential!”. I just read a post on women succeeding in science and one of the bullet points was “network, network, network!”. What. IS. “Network”. From what I […]
Sci has been running the protocol from hell for the last two days. I only just got home from the lab, and I’ve got no cool new science for you today. And so Sci will be a terrible person and present you with this repost. Because I’m lame. And because soon, I will be asleep. […]
I got wind of this study on the twitters today, courtesy of Jennifer Oulette at Cocktail Party Physics. The instant I saw the words “snake” and “PMS”, well, I knew where this was going. Because ladies, the most important thing you need to know is that when you’re PMSing, you will be a snake hunter […]
Today’s word of the week is transcription, in the biological sense. Not the process of converting speech into a written document (though I know a lot of science writers who spend a lot of time doing that, so I suppose it could count as part of the biological definition), but the part of the central […]
This paper is one of those papers that gives official science manuscript writing a bad name. It’s not that the paper is badly written, nor is it that the science is bad (in fact it’s pretty cool). No, it’s the JARGON. “…posterior surface of the posterior telopod, which is actively moved over a field of […]
I got a reader question in my inbox recently which caused me to go on an instant pubmed hunt: is there a link between hypotension and major depressive disorder, and if so, does increasing blood pressure help? And the more I dug, the more I realized that the answer is both very complicated…and pretty unknown. […]
As preparation for this post and in the interests of full disclosure, I felt the need to pop in a piece of gum while writing. Never mind that the only gum I could find was caffeinated. That gives this post a little extra…zest. Anyway, in talking with several friends over the years about methods of […]
So I don’t know about you, but I have the WORST time getting my ostriches to get it on. I tried romantic lighting, mood music, hot tubs. But it turns out I was after all the wrong things. It turns out that ostriches…want me for ME. Bubier et al. “Courtship behaviour of ostriches ( Struthio […]