Category Archives: University
Searching in scientific literature
How do you perform your literature search? When you work on a project, and need to familiarize yourself/acknowledge all the previous papers, “to the best of your knowledge” all of them, reporting same or similar stuff, what do you do? … 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
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
PCBs in Miami
As much as I love my job, sometimes I wonder how really important is what I do. Well, I am starting almost each scientific paper from “[tag]Polychlorinated biphenyls[/tag] are important environmental contaminants” or something of this sort. But are they … Continue reading
Talk at the conference
Next week, it is a big day in my scientific carrier. I am going to give a [tag]talk[/tag] at the [tag]international conference[/tag]. I am very exited. I find it as a great chance to kind of force people to notice … Continue reading
On Open access publishing
The big issue this year is the new [tag]NIH[/tag] policy requiring to provide the copy of accepted manuscript resulting from NIH sponsored grant to [tag]open access[/tag] repository in biological sciences database PubMed. As much as I was always thrilled by … Continue reading
On scientific review
If you are a scientist, from time to time you hear a discussion about Open Access or Impact Factors… You for sure have your opinion on those “hot topics”. Now, is anybody ever thinking about how unfair the [tag]peer review[/tag] … Continue reading
Power calculations in R
My first huge disappointment with R. My boss wanted me to do simple [tag]power calculations[/tag] to see how adding 2 animals to one of groups will improve statistical power. Yeah, I know, you are not supposed to do “retrospective power … Continue reading
Dunnett all-to-control test in R
OK, it is going to be a first of series of blog entries on my struggle with [tag]R project[/tag]. I consider myself an amateur in statistics and in R, so they are going to be without any theoretical background and … Continue reading
Dry ice
Have you ever bought dry ice at Wal-Mart paying with business credit card? You have no idea what you are missing. I had to do it 3 time during past week. It seems unbelievable, but each time I faced different … Continue reading