23 Things for Research

This is a list of 23 things that you scientists should be doing to help promote your research. It provides a good list of things to be thinking about as you aim to develop your career.

To collaborate or not to collaborate?

You hear about these stories about how ideas from young scientists are stolen by more senior scientists. (The case of Rosalind Franklin’s discovery of the X-ray crystallographic photographs of DNA being a prime one.) Yet, it is always disconcerting to read more and more stories about how people with good scientific ideas are taken advantage […]

10 grammar rules you can forget: how to stop worrying and write proper

Jim Steenburgh sent me this article from The Guardian about “what pop music can teach you about building sentences.”