Lab move

Just a few last minute changes to the architectural plans, and we are nearly ready to move...

Scientific writing for the biomedical sciences

Professional writing is something that is absolutely critical for becoming a scientist, yet it is typically just assumed that students will pick it up somehow during their research. 

Here are my tips for writing papers, but the most important of them is very simple - read a lot of papers of the type you would like to publish.

Scientific spam

I get an enormous amount of scientific spam. There are the obligitory emails to attend conferences in China to give talks on topics I don't work on, and endless spam from new online journals inviting me to submit my research on equally obscure topics (why yes, of course I will consider the Online Journal of Mycology for my next submission). Then there are the companies that spam you to make knockout mice or antibodies against any gene you have published on. It is all harvested from papers automatically, and very poorly at that - this company even mixed up the author name and gene name in their spam generation!

Flow cytometry Core Manager job vacant

The University of Leuven Flow Cytometry Core is currently looking for a unit manager. Extensive experience in operating BD FACS machines is essential. Details on Nature Jobs.