The plot thickens…
March 3, 2015
for those of you poor souls who do not understand Twitter. like PP.
Careful with your manuscript edits, folks
November 11, 2014
via Twitter and retractionwatch, some hilarity that ended up in the published version of a paper*.
Although association preferences documented in our study theoretically could be a consequence of either mating or shoaling preferences in the different female groups investigated (should we cite the crappy Gabor paper here?), shoaling preferences are unlikely drivers of the documented patterns both because of evidence from previous research and inconsistencies with a priori predictions.
Careful what sorts of editorial manuscript comments you let slip through, people.
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*apparently the authors are trying to correct the record so it may not last in the official version at the journal.
The Black Knight is my new spirit animal
January 15, 2014
I think @mbeisen Twitted one of the first #MontyPythonScience I saw. There’s lots of hilarity. But this one just floored me.
” ’tis but a scratch”
“A scratch? Half your funding’s been cut”
“I’ve had worse”
#MontyPythonScience
RIP Lou Reed
October 29, 2013
“Oh, I love journalists”.
Me too, dude, me too.
SFN 2013 funnies
October 22, 2013
In case you missed it, @markgbaxter was KILLING it last night with the #SFNmemes
https://twitter.com/markgbaxter/status/392478980051587072
https://twitter.com/markgbaxter/status/392466029843988480
some of my favorites were perhaps
https://twitter.com/markgbaxter/status/392441219995140096
and
https://twitter.com/markgbaxter/status/392441652922818560
I think @neuropolarbear started it.
And there was contribution from @nickwan
Sequester Impacts
May 22, 2013
That thing where someone else at the University is walking around, obviously checking out under-utilized lab space and then when caught says:
“Oh, well, it looked on RePORTER like you have just like the one grant in no-cost extension so…. [awkward pause]”
Repost: Study Section, Act I
February 11, 2013
I think it has been some time since I last reposted this. This originally appeared Jun 11, 2008.
Time: February, June or October
Setting: The Washington Triangle National Hotel, Washington DC
- Dramatis Personæ:
- Assistant Professor Yun Gun (ad hoc)
- Associate Professor Rap I.D. Squirrel (standing member)
- Professor H. Ed Badger (standing member, second term)
- Dr. Cat Herder (Scientific Review Officer)
- The Chorus (assorted members of the Panel)
- Lurkers (various Program Officers, off in the shadows)
…."what a drag".
February 11, 2013
For my lovely persecution complex commenters….
"Sure I read the paper, but I, ahh, can't remember all the details"
February 2, 2012
How Scientists See Each Other
August 10, 2011
A visual depiction across the training stages. This is absolute truth.
Click for the full image.
Hipster science
February 27, 2011
UPDATE 2/28/11: #hipsterscience shows no signs of slowing down.
I’m pretty sure it is all Zelnio’s fault:
kzelnio: I keep my pipettes in organic wool hand-woven napsacks made by local free range shepherds in Big Sur #hipsterscience
kzelnio: I hand grind organically grown fair trade red algae to make my agarose for electrophoresis. I don’t buy into “big agarose” #hipsterscience
kzelnio: I was into the coalescent before it went mainstream #hipsterphylogenetics
enniscath: Positive controls are waaaaay too conformist #hipsterscience
superkash: I use my own heirloom goat’s milk for blocking buffers. #hipsterscience
JoshRosenau: My primers are organically made by a guy I know. You wouldn’t have heard of him. #hipsterscience
drugmonkeyblog: You get a better shave with a blade you’ve freshly knapped from fair-trade, small producer obsidian @drisis #hipsterscience #hipsteranthro
upulie: I don’t publish on the “major journal” labels, I only tweet my work #hipsterscience
CMastication: My parents fund my research. #hipsterscience
noahWG: I discovered the Higgs boson, but fuck if I’m going to ruin it by telling others about it. #hipsterscience
talyarkoni: Hypothesis testing is for people who lack conviction. #hipsterscience
CBC_psi: My data don’t need to fit to your “model.” #hipsterscience
drugmonkeyblog: The Williamsburg Project was edgier RT @nwerneck @bjkraal: I liked Richard Feynman before he joined the Manhattan Project. #hipsterscience
bjkraal: I liked Richard Feynman before he joined the Manhattan Project. #hipsterscience
DrKlapperich: I’m writing a textbook. It’s self published #hipsterscience
dftchemist: If its not fortran 77 its not real code #hipsterscience
dr_leigh: the modern lab balance has only one pan. nowhere to put the mass standards… tragic. #hipsterscience
drugmonkeyblog: replication is for mainstreamers…I prefer to keep moving forward. #hipsterscience
ajebsary: I only publish in PLoS journals, out of principle. #OpenScience is my mantra and impact factor is for jokers. #HipsterScience
talyarkoni: Neuroscientists today have it easy with Brodmann Areas and stereotaxic coordinates. In my day, we used echolocation. #hipsterscience
anaturalstate: I use R for stats because Matlab is so corporate #hipsterscience
drugmonkeyblog: I know he went by Fred, I only use Burrhus to be ironic. #hipsterscience
CMastication My research question? You’ve never heard of it. #hipsterscience
drugmonkeyblog: Poser. I used the only lecture hall that still has chalkboards. RT @medscholaradaml overhead projector for my thesis defense #hipsterscience
medscholaradaml: Powerpoint? No thanks I’m using this overhead projector for my thesis defense #hipsterscience
TheAstronomist: I like galaxies the way they used to be long ago when they emitted their light, I don’t even care what they do now. #hipsterscience
drugmonkeyblog: I build my own electrophys rigs out of parts from RadioShack to remain authentic. #hipsterscience ..oh, wait http://bit.ly/ifs61w
ryneches: Published in PLoS One before everyone thought it was cool. #hipsterscience
dorsalstream: I only work with skinny genes. #hipsterscience
caruanascott: unless you take a day to equilibrate your phenol, extractions are just not very rewarding #hipsterscience
kzelnio My thermal cycler is a fixie #hipsterscience
jillahjillah: Negative reviews validate the innovative nature of my work #hipsterscience
catchpolenet: Infrared spectroscopy is a little passé. I’m thinking purples and browns. Brown goes with my man bag. #hipsterscience
para_sight: I only sequence the anti-sense strand; the conformists can work out the obvious, maybe #hipsterscience
AgileRoxy: I converted my lab notebook to QR codes. #hipsterscience
westius: I like my chemistry organic #hipsterscience
cambrianexplode: Evolution? I like the early stuff but it’s all gotten so predictable now. #hipsterscience
drugmonkeyblog: It’s just more authentic to pipette by mouth. #hipsterscience
Hard headed applicant?
January 20, 2011
This cracked me up. In doing a little research for my post over at Sb, I ran across a couple of NIH applications that were funded on the A6 version. Yep, that means somebody submitted an application seven times to get it funded (this was prior to 1996 when you could do this). What sort of person would do that, I wondered?
Click to embiggen so you can appreciate the key point.
ahh, of course. Someone who was in year 28 of his other R01. Unfortunately RePORTER seems to have lost a lot of the historical data that CRISP used to have so it is hard to tell precisely. But you wanna bet this guy had one grant that he renewed continually for decades…then when it came time to write a new proposal had no idea how to deal with critical comments, perhaps from a new set of reviewers that were not his long time cronies?
Boot camp for grant writers?
November 22, 2010
This is hilarious.
Andrews: well, it’s in my proposal. Pthalates are a suspected mutagen, and I am suggesting that…
Proposal Sergeant: I DID NOT ask you about the content of your proposal, you nematode! Who gives an airborne copulation about that! I asked you why you wrote this as a response to an FOA and not an RFA!!
and even better than that….Downfall, the NIH R01 edition
November 1, 2010
As if the paper review mashup wasn’t hilarious enough….
DrugMonkey 