Author Archives: biochembelle

The third bear can be hard to find

Time is one of those strange things of which I always seem to have too little or (on rare occasion) too much. It’s almost impossible to find the baby bear’s schedule, in which it’s all juuuuuust right. A year ago, … Continue reading

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Sezen & Sensibility: Lab dynamics & the promotion of (ir)responsible conduct of research

The chemistry tubes have been abuzz lately with the ongoing saga of the Bengu Sezen misconduct investigation. For excellent coverage, go check out ChemBark’s posts. It is a disturbing tale of years of data fabrication, fraud, sabotage, evasion, and perjury … Continue reading

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Scientiae Carnival: Inspiring Women in STEM

Inspiration. It is an essential element to finding motivation, creative avenues, success, satisfaction… But where do we find it? Is it in those who have come before us? The encouragement and confidence others give? The goals and dreams we have … Continue reading

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Retractions: What are they good for?

Retraction. It’s perhaps one of the juiciest words in scientific language. One might think of it as the Scarlet Letter of science, a public stamp that can trigger gossip, speculation, whispers… Something went wrong somewhere, and someone is paying for … Continue reading

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Please standby…

We’ll return to regularly scheduled programming… sometime. I am not going to apologize for my lack of blogging this year. I am still here. I have no intentions of giving up blogging. I miss it-not just writing but also reading … Continue reading

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