Why are we surprised when people leave the ivory tower?
I'm using the royal We here, but it's an honest question. Blog posts announcing one's decision to quit are apparently shocking to some people, but for the life of me I don't understand why. When...
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Parasites are ubiquitous among eukaryotes, with some estimates suggesting that for every animal species there are at least 100 parasites and that parasites outnumber free-living species 4 to 1. For a...
View ArticleAn early Thanksgiving
I think readers and bloggers get a relatively skewed perspective on each other, on occasion. I say this because I get emails from people suggesting that I have been very helpful in their career...
View ArticleNew blogs, here and there
If you're not aware, there's been some new activity here on Scientopia and elsewhere as we're starting to make some changes geared at refreshing our network a bit. We're expanding in some ways and...
View ArticleA summary of parenting
This week has not been a good one on the sleep front. Last night I finally had an opportunity to get some decent sleep and went to bed early. At 12:30am my youngest was screaming and I got out of bed...
View ArticleHere's your trophy for attending kindergarten graduation!
Last night I had the following conversation: "Maybe we can take the girls out for dinner after the last day of Kindergarten for the Wee One." "We'll have to eat early. Graduation is at 5:30." "Why...
View ArticleInstitutional pride
Last night I asked a question on twitter about whether PIs felt some specific allegiance to their institution and I got some interesting responses. My thought was simply that many of us may feel ties...
View ArticleArming professors: A terrible, no good, very bad idea
Deterrence. This argument often surfaces in the aftermath of school shootings, which have become almost commonplace in the US. If we simply armed teachers, it would keep would-be school shooters from...
View ArticleUnofficial Drugmonkey Day
Today is a bit of a day of appreciation for one of the steadiest presences in the Blogging As Scientist game. Whereas I haven't been blogging here in.... a while, there was a time when I had 4-5 posts...
View ArticleAn early Thanksgiving
I think readers and bloggers get a relatively skewed perspective on each other, on occasion. I say this because I get emails from people suggesting that I have been very helpful in their career...
View ArticleNew blogs, here and there
If you’re not aware, there’s been some new activity here on Scientopia and elsewhere as we’re starting to make some changes geared at refreshing our network a bit. We’re expanding in some ways and...
View ArticleA summary of parenting
This week has not been a good one on the sleep front. Last night I finally had an opportunity to get some decent sleep and went to bed early. At 12:30am my youngest was screaming and I got out of bed...
View ArticleHere’s your trophy for attending kindergarten graduation!
Last night I had the following conversation:“Maybe we can take the girls out for dinner after the last day of Kindergarten for the Wee One.”“We’ll have to eat early. Graduation is at 5:30.”“Why would...
View ArticleInstitutional pride
Last night I asked a question on twitter about whether PIs felt some specific allegiance to their institution and I got some interesting responses. My thought was simply that many of us may feel ties...
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