Category Archives: Scientific life
Networking nowadays
Today’s world is all about networking, meeting people, keeping in touch and so on. So we have social media to make it easier for us. There is Facebook, the most popular, but also MySpace. There is Twitter, and there is … Continue reading
On highly polarizing science issues
I am cleaning the shelves of my old collected magazines, including Chemical and Engineering News for last half a year or so. Reading the Letters to the Editor combined with Editorial for those issues provides some interesting observation. Rudy Baum … Continue reading
Comment on social media ethics
I just finished reading an interesting post about Twitter and other social media ethics. And I am wondering, does it all imply that people with certain positions just cannot use them at all? The journalist from major paper closed his … Continue reading
Paper update
I just realized I didn’t have time to post that another paper showed up online. It is not my first-author, but a review on chiral PCBs, their metabolites, toxicity and human and environmental enentiomeric fractions. The paper is a team … Continue reading
Poster session
I was organizing some of my iPhone photos, when I saw this image, taken during one of the recent meetings I attended. Future of the poster stands? Simple to set up, even simpler to display a poster- no mess with … Continue reading
Comic strips from the lab
I think the lab meeting was very successful today . The presenting student showed some strips from this web page, and now I am going through archive, having fun. “Addressing reviewers comments” is just hilarious. I think I am going … Continue reading
Conference tips
This reference is coming from “my other life”, it was a link in one of the photography blogs I am reading in my spare time. But by reading it I realized, that attending “Photoshop World” or any other professional meeting … Continue reading
Webinar and membership app
Being a member of American Chemical Society, I decided to join also Society of Toxicology as well, it looks good on CV and they have good programs for carrier development. However, the major reason was the fact, that they have … Continue reading
Paper out
My pharmacokinetics paper is out. The one I presented as a poster last week at the meeting. It is Environmental Science and Technology paper, not bad. You can check it out here. It seems like things are coming this year, … Continue reading
PCB in caulk
Seems like PCBs, not a main trend environmental contaminant those days, is making news from time to time. Just last week, EPA released school guidance regarding possibility of presence of PCB in caulk. Something scientists have been working on and … Continue reading