Hey, folks - given that my committee agreed to let me defend in August and my first grant deadlines will be in September, my postdoc advisor thinks I should visit Rutgers during the summer to work on proposals ( Read more... )

Those sequences that got eaten by the sequencing machine have been repeated - at no cost to me, I think - and they've revealed that my experiment WORKED.

YAY!

Happy 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth!

Happy 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth!

Happy 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species! (Okay, technically the publication date is in November - and I'll tell you now to watch the Nova special to see footage of some of my lab's research - but you can't exactly ( Read more... )

Dude, I totally double-posted this and then deleted the wrong one. Oops ( Read more... )

Why I think there's just a computer and not a person watching the playlist for this 90's themed webradio station: they just followed NIN with...the Spice Girls. And then that song was followed by Warren G. *giggle*

I'm making a mix for myself - random, sometimes bad music that's catchy as hell. It's to help keep me feeling that vague amusement or angst that helps me focus. (I think I like multitasking, and listening to music lets me add any sort of work and still be productive. Unless it's the radio, which I tend to switch every song or two ( Read more... )

I've been talking about how unusually warm it is here, right? Well, it looks like there's a new generation of butterflies eating the foliage outside my building. There are trees in bloom. And there's been a resurgence in the visibility of small critters ( Read more... )

Assuming that you took at least one high school biology course, and possible a basic bio course at the college level: as a post-grad adult, is there anything you wish you'd learned when you took basic biology?

Is there anything you did learn that you're glad was taught?

Is there anything your instructors tried to teach you that was not worth it

There's a lot of stuff that's been posted to Hulu recently...including Doogie Howser, M.D.. I know I must've seen some of this show as a kid, but I don't remember much about it. Well, now I get to see it online, and I'm enjoying it greatly.

I gotta say, Neil Patrick Harris was terribly adorable when he was in this show. (Teeny guy, big hair!)

It's how I spent my evening, so why not write about it? :-)

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