Okay, it was a snail. But it was interesting nonetheless, and surely racks me up some karma points (I am not yet sure if those are transferable with my good guy tokens)? Cycling along Higher Cambridge Street I almost squished a snail who'd started a long and perilous journey across the road, and wasn't looking... Continue Reading →
Dangerous(ly seductive) curves ahead – of life cycles and hype
or "smacking your (rule of) thumb with the hammer marked 'brain'". Narratives are great. They help you arrange (or even create) facts that fit in a nice orderly view of the world. If there is a graph to go along with the narrative, they're even more comforting. I mean, it's science, right? Sadly, no. So,... Continue Reading →
Film Review: Nice Guys finish first, but a bit too slowly…
The film is worth your time. You won’t emerge a better person, but there are some laughs, some excellent performances and nostalgia for “The Rockford Files”. That’s a pretty good deal, I’d say. Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are two men stumbling down mean streets in the ever-more-confusing and gritty (thanks to the pollution, both literal... Continue Reading →
Pathways, Publications and … Panda Penises. #Manchester PhD careers advice
University of Manchester’s Careers Service have just put on their tenth “Pathways” day for PhD students. There was free food (good), free entertainment (better) and free advice (best of all). There were 500 of us, and if there'd been a medical emergency, it would have been easier to shout out "“Is there someone who ISN’T a... Continue Reading →
My “Three Minute Thesis” effort on #climate
Here's my performance in the University of Manchester final of "Three Minute Thesis." (Thank you very much to the organisers - and the training we received was fab). I did okay but on reflection, I tried to do too much - a history of climate science and policy, an explanation of issue lifecycle models, AND the Australian... Continue Reading →
Whoop! My first academic conference invite
UPDATE - a reply below. Wow! All that work writing for The Conversation and reviewing books (and writing my thesis, natch) has paid off! I have been sent an email"to deliver an invited talk" at a conference to be held at the end of the year in Hong Kong. Not smelling a rat at all, I... Continue Reading →
Awesome tips for “female-friendly” meetings #toptips
Guest post by Kari McGregor: when trying to make orgs, groups and meetings female-friendly, I think it's important to look at it all holistically, and accept that it'll take time for the changes to happen - i.e. everything you can do to bring the change won't actually result in change until later.... source: Punch Key... Continue Reading →
And then there’s physics….
Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Ohm are on their way to to a physics convention when they get pulled over. The cop says to Heisenberg, who is driving "Do you know how fast you were going?" "No," says Heisenberg, "but I know exactly where I am." The cop says "You were doing 60 in a 40 zone."... Continue Reading →
Reef madness; suppressing bad news is nothing new. #Australia and #climate silence
Unless you've been in a coma on Mars, you'll have spotted that the Australian Government strong-armed UNESCO recently. They did this to keep the inconvenient-to-tourism fact that significant chunks of the Greater Barrier Reef is suffering coral bleaching out of a report on climate change and World Heritage sites. In yet another example of the... Continue Reading →
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