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Don’t you hate it when you’re right? I thought I was joking when I previously wrote about a career in science: Maybe a better analogy is an actor. Working as a researcher has about as much certainty as an ugly actress in Hollywood. I saw that the Cosmos Ultimate Science Guide 2012 (page 32) had statistics […]
October 6, 2011
News report from the Guardian on a report called report Careering out of Control: A Crisis in the UK Science Profession?: Science has always been a tough profession. The hours are long, the pay is relatively poor for the education and training required (usually about a decade), and permanent positions are scarce. Most research worldwide is […]
August 14, 2011
I’ve had a busy week, so I’m just posting my favourite biology PhD video. Everyone in biology has already seen it, and everyone not in biology won’t love the references to labelling tubes and Western blots. So I may bore everyone, but it’s still great. Caught in a Bad Project – Zheng lab Lady Gaga […]
April 25, 2012
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