A Natural Scientist

I recently learned that Ben Barres died at the end of the year . When his article about gender came out in 2006, I was in grad school at ...

Dr. S just graded his first batch of student papers.  Per his department's and the university's policy, he requires all his students...

Some pratty little business-school first-year once told me that my experience in grad school was a sunk cost  and therefore I should quit si...

I reserved our public library's copy of this book because the author is a friend of a friend, who told me I might like it.  Here's t...

My former advisor and I did not get along for many long years ; in fact, until one day when I politely told him off.  He was, in fact, delig...

I was reading about Miss MSE's lab-teaching joys and it reminded me of when I was TAing Bear in mind that Snooty U, as an institutio...

My former advisor had a small number of extremely reasonable questions (How much of this reagent?  What species?  For how long?) which took ...

On a related note, my old advisor would like me, my toddler, my thwompy fetus, and my nail-through-cranium headache to edit my !@#$% paper. ...

Dr. S's boss, as I have mentioned before, is a mildly psychotic tinpot tyrant.  They are trying to get a paper published.  They submit...

The point of the elevator/door story is, of course, that scientists are trained skeptics. It never fails to amaze me when people just take t...