by Nick on November 16, 2007

Here's my round-up of the best from around the blogs this (read on...)

by Suzanne on November 15, 2007

After all that hard work, you finally have your PhD. Now what? If your career choice is academic research, your first post-doc position beckons. The choice of where, and with whom, to take up a post-doc position is a very (read on...)

by Nick on November 14, 2007

During a research project, how do you record your data, conclusions and the samples you produce? What about ideas, insights and thought-trains? It would be very useful to have a good system to easily store all of these valuable (read on...)

by Dan on November 14, 2007

Three papers from UC Davis have appeared on the PLoS journals in the past few days that bring together population genetics and genomic sequencing to address questions of importance to evolutionary biology. Their discussions of (read on...)

by Nick on November 13, 2007

Wide eyed and wet behind the ears, the rookie researcher steps into the lab for the first time. Armed with several years' knowledge mined from text books, lectures and undergrad labs he feels ready to take his place amongst the (read on...)

by Dan on November 13, 2007

For every half-way decent mentor or adviser that an aspiring scientist comes across, it sometimes seems as though there is another lurking, who is simply a jerk*. Let's face it - scientists aren't consistently (read on...)

by Suzanne on November 12, 2007

What is it about gel extraction of DNA that makes it a pain? Maybe it’s poor product yields or maybe it’s because the process uses harsh chemicals (chaotropic salts, ethidium bromide, ethanol, heat) that will damage or (read on...)

by Nick on November 9, 2007

....statistics. The very word strikes fear into the heart of many a biologist (including me). In an article published earlier this year, Cumming and co-workers of La Trobe University, Melbourne gave a very useful rundown of (read on...)

by Dan on November 9, 2007

For a survey of 10 interesting articles posted recently, out there in the molecular and cellular (read on...)

by Dan on November 8, 2007

Browsing around on the Nature Network blogs, I came across one interesting discussion from a couple weeks ago that few researchers actually spend much time thinking about (I think). Martin asked, "I was wondering how much, if at (read on...)