The Singular Scientist

In the last post, I described a nightmare situation for any PI.  A trusted postdoc has turned out to be a fraud and has skipped town after f...

Imagine the following situation: You are a PI in charge of a large project to conduct an environmental assessment of the potential impact ...

Recently, someone sent me a link to a website called This is What a Scientist Looks Like .   The site, which contains hundreds of photos pos...

.....than participate in a conference call. Is there anyone out there who enjoys conference calls? Maybe it's just me, but I find conf...

I was talking with a colleague the other day about science videos and that more scientists were making short films about what their research...

In this series of posts, I've been talking about introverts, people who are contemplative, reserved, and quiet, and how such people are ...

A commenter on an earlier post in this series brings up an important issue regarding scientists who are reluctant to be cheerleaders for s...