DrugMonkey

Open Thread

drugmonkey — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:30:58 +0000

If you just can’t wait for us to get our Scientopia domain back in action…..

The phones are open. (As they used to say, kids. GOML)

Confession

bikemonkey — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 22:03:53 +0000

I much prefer, in these multi-victim random shooter events, when the perpetrator ends up dead by his own hand.

On skeptidouchene comment threads

bikemonkey — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:00:03 +0000

Is it just me or does the average “free thought”, skeptical / atheist blog comment thread resemble 20 Jack Russell sized dogs simultaneously attempting to ineffectually hump the same person’s leg?

A rare photograph of PhysioProf in his work environment

bikemonkey — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:52:01 +0000

DINGO!

drugmonkey — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:43:20 +0000

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On blogging

drugmonkey — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:56:57 +0000

You know you are doing your proper job as a blogger when SiteMeter shows you a bunch of folks on the site for 20-40 min plus, just waiting around to enjoy the comment fireworks.

SciAm bloggers get pizzaid!

drugmonkey — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:31:45 +0000

A tweet from one @robinlloyd99 indicates that the pay structure worked out for the Scientific American blogs runs a fixed $200 per month.

.@BoraZ: some networks pay more to those who bring more traffic. @sciam network doesn’t. same monthly pay for every blogger. $200

Not too shabby. I may have reached that in one or two big months at Scienceblogs.com but for the most part the paystructure there was running maybe $100-$150 per month for the DM blog, which was right around 20% or so down the traffic list. So the vast majority of Sb bloggers were not making anything near what SciAm blogs is paying. Including Sb escapees such as Myrmecos, SciCurious and Aunt Janet.

This is fantastic.

PIs on screen

drugmonkey — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:08:23 +0000

The Professor guy in Congo really didn’t seem too broken up about his postdoc getting ripped apart by beasts. People complain about maniacal slave driver bosses like MooMing Poo and Scott Kern but c’mon…could be worse.

The end of an era

drugmonkey — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:31:05 +0000

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Mentoring and the publication racket

bikemonkey — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:20:54 +0000

Whether I think it sad or not, it is true. From postdocs to grad students to rotation students, summer interns and technicians…

The best thing to do as a mentor is to make sure they are on projects which earn them an authorship, preferably sooner rather than later.

Learning a bunch of stuff is comparatively less important.