Adding to the Indirect Cost Chatter
Mike the Mad has a post up this morning in response to a post by Proflikesubstance regarding overhead... aka ‘indirect costs’. In this time of shrinking budgets I think that this is an important...
View Article#Reviewdouchery
What is #reviewdouchery? The short answer is that reviewdouchery are the comments and habits of reviewers that we love to hate. A few random examples (not in order of douchiness): 1. “It would be...
View ArticleOn representation at meetings…CSHL Microbial Pathogenesis 2013
To take a page from Jonathan Eisen’s book….I started looking at some of the top meetings in my own field to gauge the representation of women on the invited speaker list…. Let’s start with some of the...
View ArticleVictory Dance
Sometimes you have to do one. Right now, as the academic science world is undergoing its own little armageddon…..grant getting is just shit as the funding line is in free fall, people are dropping from...
View ArticleWorking hours
My kids are in school, DrMrA is out knocking everybody’s socks off at a conference, and I’ll be working in my office working on a response to a grant review. Which brings me to something I’m mulling...
View ArticleImpact Factor Warz… again.
I’ve not been blogging or reading too much blog recently. Late last week, in what started as an attempt at cleaning up my blogroll, I rambled on over to Isis place, electronically of course. Seems that...
View ArticleCell, Science, Nature…. and… eLife?
My better half returned from his travels yesterday with some interesting nuggets of information he learned on his trip. Among those was this: eLife Wow. Consider me informed. As the new guy in the OA...
View ArticleOverwhelmed
Don’t you ever just sit at your desk mentally counting the virtual mountain of tasks that have to be completed and feel totally overwhelmed? I’m totally there. Yes, this post is going to be a...
View ArticleStay within the lines. The lines are your friends.
Starting this post by saying: 1. I stand with DNLee. Everyone who has been watching the science blogosphere in the last week knows what that means. Everything that happened to Dr. Lee from Ofek to how...
View ArticleContinuing fallout
Still trying to process ongoing sexual harassment allegations of the last few weeks. At the time I wrote my last post, I don’t believe that this post from Kathleen Raven had been posted. Kathleen...
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