Archive for May, 2010
Some days Hox genes seem dull and psychiatric disorders seem intractably complex. And then you stumble across something like this: Mice with mutations in the Hoxb8 gene groom themselves at about twice the frequency of wild-type mice, resulting in hair loss and open skin lesions (Greer and Capecchi, 2002). The Hoxb8 mutant mouse has been [...]
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Canada goes looking for 19 top researchers for the Canada Excellence Research Chairs program, and comes up with… 19 men. FemaleScienceProfessor summarizes: I find it as disturbing as ever, however, that anyone with any real knowledge of the science and technology fields could sincerely say about the lack of women in a program like CERC: [...]
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Essential reading for the Ph.D.
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-academic-bad-human-being.html Whether it’s a degree in economics or in biochemistry, the goals of being a successful academic directly oppose the definition of being human. Some of this is directly related to the competition from the limited supply for academic positions, part of it is that academia is defined by economic uselessness, and part is that [...]
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It only took two months
for Facilities to recognize the basic problem with timed lights in the restrooms and replace the timer with a motion sensor. Progress!
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