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Dan Rhoads

Dan is a postdoc working at the University of Cyprus in developmental biology. He has a BSc in molecular biology and a PhD pharmacology and biochemistry.

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This week you get two “around the blogs” articles for the price of one!

Seems Dan and Nick got their wires crossed this week as both have written an “around the blogs” post at the same time. Still, best not to let a good round-up go to waste, so here are both of them:

Dan’s Around the Blogs

These are busy days still, so here are a roundup of links from across the blogs.

Careers

Want to be successful? learn to write quickly and efficiently – I could take some tips on writing efficiency – we all could.

Academic Promises – “Here’s the deal. Oral promises in academia don’t mean jack.”

Reflections on my first year as a faculty member – Personal career reflections. Check ‘em out.

Science

Growing new brain cells to treat depression: A clinical trial

Evolution of Phage Capsid and Genome Size

Miscellaneous

Cuddle up to a phage! – Simply amusing.

Science is so much more than its technical details – Comments on Brian Greene’s recent opinion piece in the NY Times. Another good response: Rethinking Science education

…and Nick’s Around The Blogs

Career paths into biotechnology. Sandra at Discovering Biotechnology in a Digital World discusses the variety of training paths that US students take to reach their first biotech job.

…and career paths out of biotechnology. Dan has been talking about the difficulties in moving out of the biotech/science career path this week, and so has Chris at chrisdellavedova.com.

Egg in our face (terrible pun, sorry). BayBlab carries some amazing photos of human ovulation captured by surgeons performing a partial hysterectomy.

Have you ever been mortified in the name of science? David at The World’s Fair has, and he along with his commenters are sharing. Maybe you should too?

It’s ok if your gel looks crappy. Janet in Adventures in Ethics and Science comments on the surprisingly common practice of tampering with images intended for publication. A lot of people apparently do this to “beautify” their images, but there is a very fine line between this and tampering with data.