If you’ve written anything excellent since December of 2008, you’ve got a few days left to submit it to OpenLab 2009, an initiative to curate and publish (on paper, no less!) the best of Science Blogging, including prose, poetry, comics and other...

Considering that I’ve managed only seven posts since my first one last March, and my fellow LSTOTT bloggers hwiegand and hbogerd haven’t posted in nearly four months and seven months, respectively, I’d say that this place is not exactly staying topical...

…we’ve also installed one of these: Yes, that’s a Roche GS-FLX, which will be fully loaded with their latest “Titanium” upgrade. Actually, it might already have it - I confess I’d have to ask someone in the lab, or maybe the office next door. Joining...

If there’s one thing my PhD supervisor taught me (and I’m hoping she taught me more than just this, but this one is important):   ———————————————————————- ———————————————————————–   “Data” is a plural noun. Data are plural, they are analyzed (or...

One of the pipette companies had a *mini* vendor show here the other day. As everyone probably knows, I don’t think very highly of pipette calibration companies. This company, however, also sells different brands of new pipettes as well as...