December 2011
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November 2011
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WatchI’m studying the bacteria living in (or infecting, depending on how sick you are and your definitions of those words) the respiratory tract. One of the projects I’m working on is called MOSAIC and is looking at last year’s swine flu outbreak, and I have lots of samples of various types from people who were hospitalised during the outbreak and gave their consent to be involved in...
October 2011
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September 2011
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WatchSpectacular!
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Luminous Flux, Astounding Projection Mapped over Liverpool Landmark
Make Games at the Science Museum
I know Coney and Hide and Seek are cool, and Blast Theory sound very cool, so this is a must.
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Like science and games and museums? Then you *must* go to the @sciencemuseum’s Game Jam on 30th Sept! http://t.co/M8DFmiNO
August 2011
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July 2011
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WatchMumford & Sons - Home/Untitled via The Blue Walrus
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Can’t Keep Johnny Down by They Might Be Giants
June 2011
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WatchI gave a talk last week at the Infectious Disease Research Network Microbial Profiling meeting at the Wellcome Trust in London. The whole meeting focused mainly on next-generation sequencing of microbial communities (which is what I’m doing at the moment at Imperial with a little GS Junior - when it feels like it), with great talks from the likes of Chris Quince and Nick Loman.
I spoke in...
April 2011
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Watchfloatingparticles:
mnwka:
ATTENTION INTERNET: THIS IS A PENGUIN BEING TICKLED.
GODDAMMIT FUCK THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD.
INTERNET GOLD.
WatchMikey Please’s BAFTA winning animation The Eagleman Stag.
Why is it so hard to find entire animations? I can’t trawl around animation festivals, anyone know of a good online distributor?
Anonymous asked: Hi - I can't find an email address on here so am posting on this ask thing. I'm an IB Biology teacher in Indonesia, currently teaching photosynthesis and was looking for E hux pictures for a case study on iron seeding. Anyway - cool coincidence is that I found the image from your blog, opened the page and it turns out that you were an MBA bursary student two years before me, in the same...
February 2011
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August 2010
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July 2010
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June 2010
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Boring Old Impact Factors
I had an interview recently where one of the interviewers turned their nose up at two of my publications because they were in PLoS ONE. I found myself having to defend the journal (oddly not the actual articles, despite the fact that one was of direct relevance to the position) and our decision to publish there (the reasons are numerous: open access, quick, broad readership, new and shiny, online...
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WatchThis talk is quite long, but you can pretty much start anywhere. David Shrigley talks about his own work.
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An Experiment with Papers
A good while ago I decided to revisit my publications and attempt to make them more accessible and (hopefully) more interesting with some background information on what actually went into them. This is my first attempt at that with my very first publication. It’s mainly to see whether I can do it and to practise writing in different ways. If you’re a scientist reading this, please...
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May 2010
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An Afternoon in London?
Recently I had a spare afternoon in London and was wondering what to do. I’ve done all the big museums in the time we’ve been here (Natural History, Science, V&A, British, Tate Modern, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery) and was starting to develop museum fatigue. I turned to my Twitter and Facebook friends for recommendations and here, in case you ever find yourself in...
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WatchFrench student film in the style of Cloverfield via Anteros at Unforum. Really well done and certainly made me jump! There are English subtitles and it’s only about 8 minutes.
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