Go vote for Grrl 12 Sep 2009 GrrlScientist, who blogs at Living the Scientific Life, is in third place to go to the Antarctic as guest of a tour company’s competition. She’s catching up on second place, which is currently held by a son of Donny Osmond. She needs your vote, so if you have already voted for someone else, you can change it now, or if you haven’t go do it. The competition will be settled by the end of the month. First place is a Portuguese DJ, who we hope will be eliminated as not being in the spirit of the competition. Administrative
Administrative Interesting past few days 9 Feb 20094 Oct 2017 Well, on Thursday night I was incredulous at a lecture by Steve Jones. On Friday night I met the fascinating Richard Grant from Our Competitor Blog Network, Nature Network. On Saturday I had a lovely lunch with my new colleagues at Sydney, and then proceeded to nearly drown while skin… Read More
Administrative Well, there goes my academic career 25 Sep 2007 Over the past three years or so I have been trying to get an academic career going, at the tender age of (then) 49 (now 51). I have applied for a number of positions while working as a postdoc at the University of Queensland, and tried now twice to get… Read More
My heart belongs to Wesley Elsberry, but since he doesn’t have enough votes, I have changed mine so Donny’s kid and the DJ don’t beat the real thing.