When I was a student I used to be a disaster at keeping lab books. Possibly because they weren’t terribly useful to me since back…
12 CommentsCategory: Science
Following last week’s discussions about the tough life of a postdoc, I’ve realized more data is needed before making general assumptions on what postdocs want…
Leave a CommentIt seems in the past two weeks someone has started going around lifting big stones in the luxurious and exotic garden of science, finding the…
26 CommentsPrepare to jump. Jump. As my trusty 25 readers would know, a few months ago I made the big career jump and moved from being…
1 CommentI frequently have discussions about funding in Science (who doesn’t?) but I realized I never really formalized my ideas about it. It makes sense to do that here. A caveat before I start is that everything I write about concerns the field of bio and medical sciences because those are the ones I know. Other fields may work in different ways. YMMV.
5 CommentsOne of climate change denialists’ favorite arguments concerns the fact that not always can weather station temperature data be used as raw. Sometimes they need…
264 CommentsQuesto post nasce come commento al post di Aldo Rustichini su nFA, ma è troppo lungo e troppo articolato e sta meglio qui. Dice Aldo che alcuni eventi recenti suggeriscono che “un ripensamento sulla evidenza disponibile sul Global Warming e’ consigliabile”. Perché non sono affattto d’accordo.
1 CommentSi parla tanto di influenza e vaccini, ultimamente. Provo a farlo anche io, cercando di mettere enfasi sulle cose che raramente vengono dette in altre sedi. Parto con lo spiegare alcuni dei punti fondamentali della biologia dell’influenza, per capire (semplificando un po’). Siccome il fulcro principale di tutto il circo mediatico ruota attorno alla pericolosità del virus, mi soffermerò sui meccanismi che lo rendono pericoloso.
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