The trip to Galveston earlier this week was quite good. I went with Mohammed Farooqui (current Biology Chair), Hassan Ahmad (Chemistry), Sco...

Budget cuts suck After investing a fair amount of effort into writing a good little pre-proposal for the Texas ARP competition, I come in...

Jet set II! I was still in a slight state of disbelief about going to Galveston next week when I got an invitation to fly to Chicago in Au...

Joining the jet set! The latest distraction from finishing my grants, manuscripts, and doing research will be a trip to Galveston in a wee...

Money all gone (almost) Spent part of the afternoon working my way through more enormous scientific catalogues. I now have just over $100 ...

Ah, power... or the illusion of it, anyway And the results of the latest summer meeting are in. Universities are run by committees, and th...

Went out to a barbeque restaurant tonight that we'd passed by once or twice. Should have passed by a few more times. Mediocore food I ca...

In or out? Who gets to do what in a grant proposal Although I mentioned the other day that I have to get to work on my next NSF proposal,...

That darn Neil Gaiman always finds the best websites. Of course, as a New York Times bestselling author and winner of major SF , fantasy ...

Top of the queue! Funny how deadlines sneak up on you. Just looked at my calendar and realized I have about one month before the next NSF...

Meetings? Yeesh. I had a meeting this morning that took up my whole morning (but was worthwhile as I got a glimpse at a large collaborativ...

Can't talk -- spending money! Realized the other day that with the end of the financial year approaching, I was rapidly running out of...

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article up titled, “Scholars who blog.” The overarching question asked is whether blogging is sim...

This article is a rather standard account of SARS research. I think it’s quite amazing that they list how, in three months, SARS has gone ...

I was thinking that my discussion of what I was doing – and will be doing a lot more of in the coming months – may sound a bit murky. Short ...

And any day you do an experiment is a good day. The story is as follows: I got up and drove out to the Coastal Studies lab on South Padre ...

Posted I'm surprised. Revamping a manuscript for submission to a new journal didn't take as long as I thought. I now have four cop...

Tedium! One of the most annoying things about preparing a scientific manuscript is the references. They are fiddly. They are long. And eve...

The grant gauntlet I'm starting work on a pre-proposal for something called the Advanced Research Program grants, which are put up by...

Here’s what I sent to the letters section of The Age in response to the article mentioned in the last entry of this journal: “It’s unfortu...