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Entries Tagged as 'humorous'
Celebs lend their names to science
April 5th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
Tags:humorous, interesting
How to Reject a Paper: Advice from a Chain Letter
November 4th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
This is a seriously enjoyable post from Blake at Science After Sunclipse: How to Reject a Paper: Advice from a Chain Letter I got forwarded this from someone who got forwarded this from someone whose sister’s former roommate got it from Al Gore. …Because the peer review process is anonymous, this may seem like no [...]
Tags:academia, communication, humorous
The Safety Song
October 21st, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
The folks over at The Sounds of Science have a wonderful new video: (not to be confused with Safety Dance) Brilliant! OSHA’s lab safety web resource
Tags:funny, helpful, humorous, Information, science
PHD is coming to St. Louis!
March 31st, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Yippie! Here are the details: [Get ready] for an evening of academic humor as the creator of “Piled Higher and Deeper” delivers his popular talk, “The Power of Procrastination”. Wednesday, April 1, 2009 – 7:00pm Carlos Auditorium, Tegler Hall at SLU (PDF map) 3550 Lindell Blvd. Tour dates Facebook event
Darwin Day Link Round-Up
February 12th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
DISCOVER Does Darwin: Special Section on Evolution Darwin 200 years later: Evolution by selection of quotations Vatican Gives Darwin a Big Birthday Hug, Leaving Creationists on the Fringes Galleries / Darwin’s Dystopias: Ghastly Visions Inspired by Evolution Darwin vs. His Dad, circa 1831 Darwin Day podcasts from Scientific American National Human Genome Research Institute Darwin [...]
Tags:blogging, event, evolution, humorous, link round-up
Brain on a stick
January 27th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Mad Libs – scientific abstract style
January 15th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Just wanted to bring your attention to PhD Comics today. As always, perfect. A few other recent gems: Other Measures of Scientific Productivity:INVITED TALKS and the Teaching Index Your (real) Impact Factor Clever Acronyms
Science and the election
October 17th, 2008 by Kristi · No Comments
The Team at ScienceDebate2008.com sent an email update on several developments: Reminder of our terrific conference in Minnesota Monday and Tuesday, with several top-name speakers. [Be sure to] vote and comment on the candidates’ responses to the 14 questions – we have had over 1000 votes on innovation. We’re hosting a pdf from our friends [...]
Tags:funny, humorous, Information, interesting, policy, politics, Uncategorized
The Economic Meltdown: Should you be concerned?
September 30th, 2008 by Kristi · No Comments
Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD) is usually right on the money (pun intended) and yesterday’s comic was no different:
Bioinformatics and politics have a BLAST?
September 9th, 2008 by Kristi · No Comments
Jonathan Eisen, professor at UC Davis and Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS, wrote an interesting entry in his blog: “Tracing the evolutionary history of Sarah Palin: links to a parasitic nematode and the pathogenic fungus Botryotinia fuckeliana“. It is always fun to see unique application of sequence databases and tools. Dr. Eisen also mentioned [...]
Tags:bioinformatics, database, humorous, NCBI, politics, sequence
