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A ton to be thankful for -- here is one part of that - all the acknowledgement sections from my scholarly papers
So - it is another Thanksgiving Day and in addition to thinking about family, and football, and Alice's Restaurant, I also think a lot a...
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I have a hardback version of The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerma n but had not gotten around to reading it alas. But now I am listening to th...
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There is a spreading surge of PDF sharing going on in relation to a tribute to Aaron Swartz who died a few days ago. For more on Aaron ... -
Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. Just got an email invitation to a meeting. The meeting is " THE FIRST ANNUAL WINTER Q-BIO ...
Bah, don't you know of the plan (supported by 21 UCSD department heads) to solve the budget problem by closing the "minor" UC campuses (the "major" ones being defined not only as UC-Berkeley and UCLA, as one would expect, but also UCSF and, um, UCSD)
ReplyDeleteHmmm... and to think I plan on applying to the system for grad school soon...combined with a drastic increase in grad school applicants due to the shitty job market, where people would actually rather hang around in a lab because there's nothing better for them to do; made worse by the 'less funding --> fewer positions' issue.
ReplyDeleteI'm so very excited. Also there's that detail that my skillset is pretty much entirely lab- and research related, thereby making me less employable than a highschool dropout. World, here I come!
So, who wants a PCR monkey? Any takers? *chirp chirp* *tumbleweed*
/rant of extreme optimism
it makes no sense to tax (aka furlough) university professors and staff who are working to get us out of the global mess we are in. Wouldnt it make more sense to place a 1% tax on millionaires?
ReplyDeleteI have written a letter to the legislators