First, a handy little reminder on group meetings from Biocurious. The suggestions are so simple, and yet so many people in group meetings do not think about what they want to say ahead of time, or they drag on and on. And those that respond to questions with “I don’t know”, as a full answer, [...]

Around the blogs this week: anti-social scientists, science grads who don’t know what a theory is and a system for handling difficult seminar questions… How drug prices get high. Mike the Mad Biologist gets really mad about the way drug companies set drug prices. Social networking – are we social enough? Jonathan Gitlin at Nobel [...]

In this week’s round-up of bio-related blogs: The smell of the sea breeze, corporal punishment in the lab and a surprising side-dish to go with your sushi.