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Popping up trouble with butter and Alzheimer’s
Love popcorn? Been having trouble with your memory lately? Perhaps you saw the story popping on news and health websites about the link between popcorn flavoring and Alzheimer’s disease and panicked. What have I been doing to my brain all these years? But … Continue reading
Silence speaks
I typically don’t write about politics (for lack of a better word) here (though I am a little less successful on Twitter). It is simply not my schtick and does not particularly fit with style or content here. Today I’m … Continue reading
More money, more jobs, and other fairy tale dreams
Postdoc salaries and benefits are something of a perennial topic in the scientific community. It’s no secret that postdocs would like to make more money and get better benefits, whether in the form of better health insurance or actually starting … Continue reading
Wherefore [Or rather, where] art thou, Biochembelle?
Life is always busy… The past six weeks have been a little more so than usual – starting with a move of residence. It was a local move (same job, different apartment), but as probably all of you know, while … Continue reading
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The oversupply fallacy
For the love of all that is good and reasonable, please, everyone, stop using the percentage of scientists becoming research faculty as a measure of PhD oversupply. If there are too many PhDs, then there will be more scientists than … Continue reading
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