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  • Hayfever

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    I always find biology curious – which sounds like a daft thing for me to say as I am clearly a biologist and wouldn’t remain so if I didn’t find the subject intriguing. My recent real-world example that has piqued my interest, however, is my hayfever. In biology patterns exist, but I’m also used to…

  • Comment spam

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    I’ve had to kill the comment system for a little while. This site was getting a massive, unmanageable amount of comment spam, and the ratio of real to false commenters is tiny.

  • Froggy Recovered

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    I deduced where Jack must have left him!

  • Anatomy Teaching: the cruellest cut of all

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    Some of the GEP students might be interested to see who we saw in London at an anatomy meeting yesterday. They like his DVDs very much.

  • Degree applicants ‘copy from web’

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    A BBC article claims “Thousands of prospective university students are using the internet to cheat in their applications, analysis by admissions service Ucas reveals.” Importantly UCAS say, “There’s a difference between copying, and using the web to get advice on how to write the best personal statement – there’s nothing wrong with that.”

  • Spring?

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    Spring is on the way. I can tell because after cycling to work this morning the roof of my mouth is lined with gnats.

  • Moving Mum & Dad

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    Mum and dad moved house over the last few days, so we have a new family home. They’ve moved into a really nice house not far from the previous one, and the move itself went smoothly (thanks to family and friends as a whole, but particularly thanks to my brother the professional removals man). My…

  • Beach in February

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    No matter the weather, kids love the beach.

  • Apple and Cisco share iPhone name

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    I’m always telling Jack to share nicely with his friends, and now it seems that the big boys can do it too. BBC article.

  • Back in the lab

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    Look at me! I’m back in the lab! I need some images to complete a paper I’m about to submit, so I finally get to go into the lab, cut some sections on the cryostat and do a little immunohistochemistry. It feels good, and brings back some good feelings. Oh, the monotony of the post-doc’s…