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This was something I sent around to our School's postgraduate students, after being sent the article by Prof. Martin Fey: Schwartz, M.A. (2008) The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Journal of Cell Science121:1771 . This should be essential reading for postgraduate students in any discipline. (It's irrelevant that it's in a ...

A paper in Science (Real-Time DNA Sequencing from Single Polymerase Molecules) has reported a new technique that can sequence DNA 30,000 times faster than current techniques. The researchers are using tiny hollow metal cylinders (ZMW waveguides) on a chip to isolate single molecules of DNA and visualise the flourescing nucleotides as they are ...

''If a paper gets published in a journal, and nobody reads it, does it have any impact?'' Ok, falling trees probably do make a sound even if there is no one to hear them but publishing a paper in a low impact journal is certainly not going to help it to be read, or more importantly, cited. This has always mattered (even when I was doing my PhD I ...

[YouTube:wtWJU27WjZQ] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtWJU27WjZQ Here is an appeal for all the budding Spielbergs or  Coppolas out there. Make a movie about your research, yourself or your supervisor. This movie was made with a camera phone (we will try a better quality video next time), was entirely spontaneous (we were ...

Today I feel like a dormouse, I want to curl up and sleep...In fact, I just did, and now I'm fighting to wake up again.  Reasons? Recovering from three day intensive workshop for the teaching internship (TI) Trying not to think about the 5000 words of research that are due in by the end of Monday The TI workshop was good, and I ...