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• July 30, 2010

• The Thoughtful Animal

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  7 Questions with... Zen Faulkes Here at Thoughtful Animal headquarters, we are conducting series of seven-question interviews with people who are doing or have done animal research of all kinds - biomedical, behavioral, cognitive, and so forth. Interested in how animal research is conducted, or...

• July 27, 2010

• Uncertain Principles

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  Distilled Faculty Outrage Via Inside Higher Ed this YouTube video is pretty much a distillation of faculty reaction nationwide to higher education's response to the world economic crisis: The IHE link gives a little more context to the video, and some of the...

• The World's Fair

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  The World's Fair - now in the United Kingdom... (and just to clarify, not Hogwarts) O.K. It's been a while since I last posted, but I do have a good excuse. I've been on the road with my family for the past 5 weeks, and have just settled in London. I'm here because I am...

• July 25, 2010

• On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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  Ask Dr. Isis - Can I Be My Boss's Landord? Yes, little darlings. That is the title of this edition of Ask Dr. Isis. I can't come up with anything more hilarious than this situation already is. So, let's just get to the letter... A graduate student reader asks me:...

• July 21, 2010

• Pharyngula

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  Working towards some resolution Don't panic, don't go into withdrawal, progress is looking good. Adam Bly sounds enthusiastic about meeting my demands (which is easy, since they don't hurt Seed at all), got in contact with us quickly, and we're going to be...

• July 20, 2010

• Pharyngula

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  Pharyngula on STRIKE ON STRIKE! It's come to this. We've been facing a steady erosion of talent here at Scienceblogs, with the loss of good people like Carl Zimmer and Ed Yong a while back, and with the very abrupt departure of 15...

• July 15, 2010

• DrugMonkey

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  NIGMS score data: All about the approach. Still. The major review criteria for NIH grants focus on Significance, Investigator(s), Innovation, Approach and Environment.

• July 12, 2010

• DrugMonkey

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  Go it alone? or form a collective? When you first start in this business you tend to see yourself as an independent operator. You are only responsible for publishing the words and images that are your product. But what if the things you wish to accomplish require something a little greater than your own efforts?

• July 6, 2010

• Adventures in Ethics and Science

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  Paid sick leave and ethics. Being an able-bodied member of the workforce is not a permanent position. What are your duties if you're collecting sick-pay?

• DrugMonkey

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  Farewell to Tenure? 31% tenured?

• The Thoughtful Animal

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  BlogCast: Random Ramblings of Grad School A handful of random musings on life as a grad student, spanning two countries, three states, and six or seven timezones, lasting about half an hour. Isn't the internet wonderful?

• July 1, 2010

• The Weizmann Wave

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  Don't Just Take Our Word for It According to the yearly survey in The Scientist, the Weizmann Institute is the second best place to work in international academia. Over the past few years, the Institute has twice taken the number one slot; this is the third time...

• June 29, 2010

• The Thoughtful Animal

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  Feeling Stupid Is Important! One of my scientific heroes, Richard Feynman, explains confusion and stupidity: Albert Einstein said: "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called Research." If you're going to be doing research, you better be comfortable with feeling stupid....

• Adventures in Ethics and Science

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  IGERT meeting: what do grown-up interdisciplinary scientists do for a living? One of the most interesting sessions at the NSF IGERT 2010 Project Meeting was a panel of men and women who participated in the IGERT program as students and are now working in a variety of different careers. The point...

• June 28, 2010

• DrugMonkey

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  UC postdocs get a little help from CongressCritters The University of California has been negotiating with a postdoctoral union over many issues of compensation. Unsurprisingly one of their favorite tactics when dealing with student / transient employee concerns is to delay. The postdocs have an interesting set of...

• June 27, 2010

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Are women "bailing out" of IT? Or are they being pushed out, but blamed for it? A blog post in on Womensenews.org, raises interesting issues....

• June 26, 2010

• DrugMonkey

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  Call for Scientiae Blog Carnival: Describe your dream institute JaneB of Now, what was I doing? blog has the reins for the July edition of the Scientiae Blog Carnival. It struck my fancy. So for this carnival, I thought it would be fun to revive an old game we...

• June 25, 2010

• Uncertain Principles

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  Scientific Salary Stratigraphy: Past Performance Does Not Guarantee Future Results Inside Higher Ed has a news squib about gender disparities in academic science, which points to a Nature story about a survey on job satisfaction (bad IHE, giving a false impression on the story!). The gender portion of the story...

• The Thoughtful Animal

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  7 Questions with... Bora Zivkovic Here at Thoughtful Animal headquarters, we're starting a new series of seven-question interviews with people who are doing or have done animal research of all kinds - biomedical, behavioral, cognitive, and so forth. Interested in how animal research is conducted,...

• Greg Laden's Blog

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  Should sexy sell feminism? And in this case by "feminism" I mean specifically active engagement in STEM-recruiting. The answer is ... going to be at the far end of what I predict will be an interesting and productive discussion starting out at Urban Science Adventures: An Open Letter to...Nerd...

• June 24, 2010

• DrugMonkey

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  Do you expose your trainees to the NIH Grant sausage making? I think that PIs should always be willing to involve trainees in the grant writing if they are interested in learning about this part of the career. Always.

• The Thoughtful Animal

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  Music While Doing Science - Part 1 Last week, I asked on twitter, and then on the blog, about peoples' preferences for listening to music while doing various types of sciencey work, and conducted an informal survey. Today I'll give you the (entirely unscientific) results, and in...

• June 23, 2010

• On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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  Ask Dr. Isis - I Have a Degree. Now What Do I Do? Dr. Isis is writing this blog post from her bed with a bag of ice tucked between her legs.  This shit is not cute.  "Why is there a bag of ice tucked between Dr. Isis's legs?", you might be asking...

• DrugMonkey

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  You don't get to define your job. Is that a problem for you? You will probably have noticed by now, DearReader, that the NIH grant game is not exactly a distasteful part of my job. Don't get me wrong. I'd be much happier if I had landed in some hard-salary situation with exceptional...

• The World's Fair

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  Who wants a tenure track position in beautiful Vancouver? I've got one! (well, seven actually) (Well, actually 6 since the first ad below is just a bit of fun...) - - - JOB POSTING: "IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME" This is a call for outstanding candidates to apply for a tenure track assistant professor...

Synthetic Biology

Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:

Pharyngula May 30, 2007

“Playing God”

The Loom January 31, 2008

"Frankenstein Was Here": Synthetic Biology as Graffiti

Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006

Build your own virus

See Also:

Cribsheet: Synthetic Biology
Seed’s downloadable science guide