A carefully honed selection of lies

[elsewhere_adore]

Or, Things I Learned From My Supervisor

Comments

[stagknight]

-Studying an area of chemistry that nobody else in the department really gives a shit about makes poster sessions potentially hilarious. I sing the making-shit-up song.

Ditto computational chemistry, a.k.a. the making-shit-up symphony.

[dwagon]

I too know the joys of working in an obscure area :). Another upside is that you'll get basically no questions even at specialist conferences, and those'll probably be piss easy too.

And are you trying to say that Indiana Jones doesn't do 'Science!'?

[elsewhere_adore]

I would be willing to put money on the assertion that Indiana Jones has never had an article published in Nature. The Most Pulp Man In The Universe he may be, but Dr McPublish maybe less so.

[stagknight]

H. Jones; Blood magic rituals in Thuggee groups devoted to Kali, American Journal of Pulp Archeology, 1935. 5(2): p110-116.

H. Jones; Ritual and mysticism surrounding the Ark of the Covenant, American Journal of Pulp Archeology, 1938. 12(1): p144-156.

H. Jones, H. Jones; A novel interpretation of early Templar myth surrounding the Holy Grail, American Journal of Pulp Archeology, 1940. 3(3): p423-428.

H. Jones, Screw it -- no one will believe me anyway, Nature 2, 423 - 427 (1961).

The man's got to publish something to get all that delicious travel funding.

[chemical16]

Surely it's Jones H., (2001) J. AM CHEM., (237 - 537) How I shot web?

[chemical16]

"a grizzled academic"

Hardly the way I'd describe the Gaffers...

[elsewhere_adore]

Fine then, 'bitter and harsh, twisted beyond recognition by prolongued contact with biologists'.