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Worlds colliding in a blizzard
An international, billion Euro project like the European XFEL obviously involves a fair bit of politics and diplomacy, but also paperwork and bureaucracy. We’re coming up to a big meeting of the...
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Of fairy rings and other mysteries
I just came back up from our cellar, where I was looking through a couple of cardboard boxes that I hadn’t opened since we moved from Colorado. The boxes are full of research papers on benthic...
View ArticleThis is us, trying to fit in
Or "Who cares if it’s der, die or das Tür – it’s a f%$#%g door!!"** I’ve been wanting to write about this for a while, and now – after I was locked out of my blog for over two days this week after the...
View ArticleWhat will I write for Ada Lovelace Day?
A few weeks ago I signed up for Ada Lovelace Day, which happens tomorrow, on 24th of March – here’s the info from the website: Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging,...
View ArticleIf women are in science, and science is in the Antarctic, then women belong...
I remember that, as a grad student, I always listened up when I came across a prominent female researcher in marine science – there just weren’t (and still aren’t) that many of them… and I think I...
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The most beautiful library in the world?
I was a bit out of my depth – but not completely uncomfortable – when I attended BibCamp3 in Hannover, Germany, on Friday and Saturday. I had been coerced into attending by Martin Fenner, who was one...
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Something fishy
I am not really a ‘fish’ type of person. If I ever had any doubts whether I should be a fish biologist (and I didn’t), I would have lost them during that day out on the Baltic Sea as an undergrad, when...
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Do not touch
This past week I took my son on a short-notice, frantic and fantastic trip to the UK. We managed to catch up with friends – old and new – and see cool stuff. When we had lunch1 with Stephen Curry on...
View ArticleHard science and soft skills
I saw this article in Nature this morning and it made me very happy. Hard science: meet soft skills. Please allow me to cite freely from the article, “Leaders wanted”: Richter [the former director of...
View ArticleMoving!
Hi all, I’ve been very quiet on the blogging front this year, especially for the last few months. So quiet in fact that I got an e-mail from a Nature Network team member the week before last, basically...
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