It is all too easy to fill our days with meetings and other small tasks that leave only small gaps for the serious work. It is important to create time and space for hard tasks.
Need someone to give you time, money, advice or support? You need to know your pitch – a short snappy written or verbal communication. Watch these people attempt 1 min pitches.
Watch a 10-Year Time Lapse of the sun (it takes an hour, but you don’t have to watch it all)
Added to the ‘I didn’t think animals could get weirder’ list – meet the Hooded Nudibranch.
Try taking up the hobby of ‘soap bubble freezing’, and read the science behind how it works.
NHMRC have revised their Open Access Policy – all peer-reviewed publications from NHMRC-funded research must now be made available immediately upon publication.
At some point, every one of us will have to ask for help. The key to overcoming your fears about networking is to practice a little bit every day.
Usually, an organism’s cells all carry the same genes. In yellow crazy ants, some cells carry only maternal and others only paternal genetic material. Chimerism can happen by accident in nature but these ants rely on chimerism to exist.
Paper-mills (fake journal article factories) are undermining the integrity of science.
