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Not the Lab: January 2015
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Good science, bad science, and how chemistry can make the world awesome. Friday, January 9, 2015. Revisiting grad school and mental health with Chemjobber. Note to readers: this post is a response in a dialogue between Chemjobber. And I on grad school and its effects on mental health. Yesterday's post can be found here. Adjusting to being several states away from family and my SO, and wondering if my PI knew enough to steer my career in a productive direction. In the last two years (and maybe it's just c...
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Not the Lab: May 2013
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Good science, bad science, and how chemistry can make the world awesome. Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Academic salaries: some numbers and graphs. The topic of academic salaries came up recently and I figured I'd look a little further. Where does chemistry stand? After all, jobs are scarce- how do academic positions pay compared to other disciplines? The Chronicle of Higher Education. Or a web search. I took a (somewhat) random single institution ( Bowling Green State University. And all that. ( NB. First, a ...
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Not the Lab: July 2013
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Good science, bad science, and how chemistry can make the world awesome. Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Vittorio over at Labsolutely has a very clever and amusing post up re-imagining the X-Men as chemists. So what other media genres share cross-over with our field? The modern art form deemed the " chick flick. Tom Hanks, Phil Baran); and (3) careful shielding of the subject from reality of life/lab. And of course, both chick flicks and science place an emphasis on diaries. How to Lose a Grant in 10 Days.
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Not the Lab: June 2013
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Good science, bad science, and how chemistry can make the world awesome. Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Stop using that word: Accordance. Consider "accordance". It's a sleek, shiny word. But it's terribly misused in scientific manuscripts. To pick on just one example, take the following text from a recent publication. By Neil Kelleher's group. At Northwestern (bold emphasis mine):. Our observations were in accordance with a previous study. And another example from a total synthesis. Of daptomycin by Xuechen Li:.
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I…I miss the lab | the bunsen boerner
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Great flaming balls of science. April 22, 2013. I…I miss the lab. By Leigh Krietsch Boerner. There I said it. I never thought I would. But something going on right now, Real Time Chem Week. Is making me jones for my chemistry lab days a bit. For those of you who don’t want to click that link, Real Time Chem (or rather #realtimechem. The best words to hear on a Monday morning are ….and then it exploded #realtimechem. Mdash; Kelly McGuire (@KellyisBG) April 23, 2013. And it’s only Monday night! I really mi...
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The Chem Coach Carnival! | the bunsen boerner
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Great flaming balls of science. October 23, 2012. The Chem Coach Carnival! By Leigh Krietsch Boerner. It’s National Chemistry Week! I’ve decided to honor the 25th year of this most sacred event by coming out of baby-induced blog hibernation. Don’t expect it to be permanent. What prompted this head peek back into the land of the living was See Arr Oh and his blog carnival. Freelance science writer, part-time. Also, stay-at-home mom. With no childcare. My work hours: naps, nights, and weekends. But, it dep...
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Clips | the bunsen boerner
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Great flaming balls of science. The Complicated Question of Drugs in the Water. 14 May, 2014. Nanoparticles Show Big Promise in the Fight Against Cancer. 2 July, 2013. The Best Dish Soap. 11 February, 2014. Journal of the American Chemical Society. Chemical and Engineering News:. Simple Catalyst Pair Transforms Excess Glycerol into Useful Compounds. Chemical and Engineering News:. Sewage Plants Struggle to Treat Wastewater Produced by Fracking Operations. 18 March, 2013. Chemical and Engineering News:.
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Not the Lab: Biology Resources
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Good science, bad science, and how chemistry can make the world awesome. These are resources related to biology that may be useful to chemists doing biology (or, I suppose, biologists doing biology). Feel free to contact me if you find any others that are generally useful; this list will grow. Http:/ dbtbs.hgc.jp/. From the site's description: "a collection of experimentally validated gene regulatory relations and the corresponding transcription factor binding sites upstream of B. subtilis. From the site...
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Not the Lab: Carbenes: turns out, nature has them, too
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Good science, bad science, and how chemistry can make the world awesome. Thursday, June 20, 2013. Carbenes: turns out, nature has them, too. Enzymes are like nature's little gloveboxes. It's really quite interesting what kind of chemistries are possible in aqueous, biological conditions just by manipulation of the local electronic and steric environment by the structure of enzymatic active sites. And can be crystallized (it melts, by the way, at 240 degrees Celsius). Though, persistent carbenes (as NHCs)...
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Not the Lab: Stop using that word: Accordance
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Good science, bad science, and how chemistry can make the world awesome. Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Stop using that word: Accordance. Consider "accordance". It's a sleek, shiny word. But it's terribly misused in scientific manuscripts. To pick on just one example, take the following text from a recent publication. By Neil Kelleher's group. At Northwestern (bold emphasis mine):. Our observations were in accordance with a previous study. And another example from a total synthesis. Of daptomycin by Xuechen Li:.
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