• Living Machines and Flashing Lights

    Researchers at UC San Diego have created living 'neon signs' from glowing bacteria which flash on and off in unison. As described in this week's Nature, the researchers used this technology to create a bacterial sensor for detecting low levels of arsenic. I like to imagine that the scientists...

  • Survivorship Bias in Science

     Let’s imagine for a moment that uncertain job prospects and too much caffeine pushes me over the edge and I gather up every monkey in the world and shut them in a room with a bunch of computers. Sometime later, I return to a lot of flung poo and, among all the random strings of letters typed by...

  • Stealth Tactics of the Black Death Bacterium

     Yersinia pestis holds the dubious title of the world's most devastating bacterial pathogen. While its glory days of the Black Death are thankfully a thing of the past, this pathogen remains a threat to human health to this day. A recent paper published in PNAS describes how the...

  • Wasted Time Isn’t Always Wasted Time

     The other day I commented to the father of my child that having a baby is a little bit like going to prison. Not the ‘nice’ sort of prison where they let you do Open University courses and try to make you a better person. A Victorian-style prison where the inmates are forced to turn a crank...

  • Where do science writers get their ideas?

     I’m a week into a month-long placement in a science journalism office made up of real journalists and me – a research scientist who is rapidly learning a new respect for those who write about science in a professional capacity. In the past, I know I’ve Googled ‘where do science journalists get...

  • Blame the Europeans

     You know when you drive an unfamiliar car and you have to find your way round all these knobs and buttons to make the car go in the direction you want it to go in? M. tuberculosis has the same problem when it comes to the human immune system. This can make things tricky as it’s a pathogen that...

Saturday, 20 December 2014

Ten Ways Motherhood is Nothing like Scientific Research

Posted by Kathryn at 15:35 • 0 comments
Scientist spends 8 years training for a career in research. Scientist gives up said career to embark on her greatest experiment yet—an adorable squishy baby! Only the scientific method no longer works and that Excel spreadsheet titled “How I will raise baby” is woefully inadequate… 1. Your PhD did not prepare you for this  At...
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