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Someone’s already said it better.
and in this case, funnier and better. I wish I could include this as a citation in a paper I’m writing at the moment… From the inimitable, impossible to copy, xkcd series. Now, why am I posting...
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The nomadic life of an academic
I’m moving again. But this time, neither job nor country. Just house. My new gaff will be all of 2 minutes stroll from my usual place of work, cutting a valuable 8 minutes from my commuting time – in...
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Allee effects: possibly not so effective after all
I’ve been catching up with some literature that’s been lying on my desk for a while, and finally got round to reading a very interesting paper published last year, which examines the evidence for...
View ArticleSpam Wars: Revenge of the humans
Dear NN Users, We’ve been suffering from a deluge of bot inspired spam attacks recently, which the techs have been struggling to keep under control. I propose a simple method to take back the “Latest...
View Article‘Citation needed’: an ode to Wikipedia
Fair fa’, yer honest, sonsie face… Great puddin’ o’ the website race, Aboon them a’, ye tak yer place, Britannica or Ask Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace As lang’s my ethernet cable. All of which was...
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Pressure
I’ve entered the final year of my current contract. This has put a certain fear into me, that acts as a serious motivation to tinker with, write up and push out manuscripts as part of the never ending...
View ArticleAntineoplastons – taking the piss once again
The Burzynski Research Institute in Houston, Texas, has been hitting the blog headlines recently. This clinic runs trials investigating alternative cancer treatments, with unproven effects after 30...
View ArticleTOE and 2LOT
TOE = Theory of Evolution (through differential descent with modification). 2LOT = the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Just a quick scribble to pimp a post over at Good Math, Bad Math on the common and...
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Peerage of Science: A publishing revolution?
There’s a feeling amongst some scientists that we aren’t all pulling our weight: some go for glory without necessarily putting in the effort in more mundane tasks of day to day science. I’m talking...
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Are Ecologists too Credulous?
Do we follow rigorous scientific protocol when reporting our work to our peers? Or do we fall into the sort of traps that the scientific method is supposed to help us avoid? Would Karl Popper be proud...
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