How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height Of 8 foot poster boards lined up by the hundreds. To the ends of cutting-edge talks and expert questions. I love thee to the early morning symposiums, But only if…
... of a postdoc/graduate student, at least. I have no idea the crazy things those professors get up to! Probably just boring meetings and endless grant writing, but you never know. Maybe they have secret bubble machines for stress relief! Anyway, I occasionally get asked the dreaded question from a…
This post is just some random lists about objects I see daily in the lab. It was supposed to be a quick, fun post to commemorate my first year of posting (woo!). I did not realize how much effort these click bait lists take! And thus begins another late post…
Doesn’t it feel like an eternity since I started blogging about the peer review process? Guess what, it’s actually a fairly accurate of a timeline for the process! It’s long and drawn out, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Rush jobs are rarely done well…
Sometimes, just sometimes, the stars line up and the subject I’m discussing on my science blog gets big media attention. Yay, relevancy! I mentioned last post that most peer reviews in my field of study are single blind, basically letting the reviewers be on the cop side of the…
Ok, the experiments are done, the journal is picked out and the manuscript is written. It’s time to make a sacrifice to whichever science god you follow, press the submit button on the online submission form and wait… and wait, and wait some more. Most will take close to…