Can your lab book do this?
When I was a student I used to be a disaster at keeping lab books. Possibly because they weren’t terribly useful to me since back then I had an encyclopedic memory for experimental details or possibly because I never was much of a paper guy. As I grew older my memory started to shrink (oh [...]
Was will das Postdoc? (What does a postdoc want?)
Introduction. A couple of months ago, an interesting article by Jennifer Rohn on Nature prompted an explosive discussion on the interweb about the career perspectives of post doctoral researchers. Jennifer’s point in a nutshell was “we should give postdocs the chance to keep being postdocs forever and ever if they so wish” and was encountered [...]
Patches for Nautilus “move to trash” bug
Warning, this post contains a geek rant. If you use the nautilus or nautilus-elementary filemanager (the default file manager in any gnome-based linux distro, including Ubuntu), you are probably aware of the annoying bug with file deletion. Like any other file manager, nautilus allows you to delete your files using keyboard shortcuts: permanently (hit <Shift-Delete>) [...]
Postdoc, love or hate? A survey.
Following last week’s discussions about the tough life of a postdoc, I’ve realized more data is needed before making general assumptions on what postdocs want and need. Jennifer Rohn’s post had an overwhelming response of sympathizing postdocs who would love to have a “postdoc for life position” and I didn’t find this surprising. What came a bit [...]
I am a postdoc and I think I just realized I have been screwed for years
It seems in the past two weeks someone has started going around lifting big stones in the luxurious and exotic garden of science, finding the obvious gross underneath. To be more precise, the topic being discussed here is: “I am a postdoc and I think I just realized I have been screwed for years“. A [...]
Of scientists and entrepreneurs.
Prepare to jump. Jump. As my trusty 25 readers would know, a few months ago I made the big career jump and moved from being on the bench side of science to the desk side, becoming what is called a Principal Investigator (PI). As a matter of fact nothing really seems to have changed so [...]
Send your holiday greetings the smart way
It’s holiday season again and you want to send a greeting card to all your dearest friends. You can’t send a mass email of course because that is evil and it will result in Santa not bringing any goodies to you. On the other hand, writing 50 emails all with the same attachment is a [...]
A tale of evolution. How Facebook and I grew apart.
I am leaving facebook or at least I am going to concentrate my social activity somewhere else. Most people leave because they are worried about privacy violations and similia but I don’t really care about that. I am well aware that my credit card companies, my banks, my favorite grocery stores¹ and my postman know [...]
What has changed in science and what must change.
I frequently have discussions about funding in Science (who doesn’t?) but I realized I never really formalized my ideas about it. It makes sense to do that here. A caveat before I start is that everything I write about concerns the field of bio and medical sciences because those are the ones I know. Other fields may work in different ways. YMMV.
Imgur uploader :: Add-ons for Firefox
This addon let you upload any image found on the web directly on imgur.com, with a simple right-mouse click. Just move your mouse on the image, select “upload image on imgur” and ready you are! The URL of the newly uploaded image is automatically copied in the clipboard. The official page of the extension is [...]
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