Although it might be a while before it’s my turn to read it
I has a book and I WILL NOT SHARE
I’m excited, this is the first time I’ve ever read a book written by someone I “know”.
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rENNISance woman by Cath Ennis
Matt Brown said: "You can blog about whatever you wish, as long as it is related to science and research". His wish is my command! Here are some snippets from my life as a cancer research grant wrangler in Vancouver. Mostly the silly bits.
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Last updated: Monday, 08 Sep 2008 - 01:18 UTC
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I just finished reading it, and really enjoyed it. I’m loaning it to a couple of friends from work tomorrow, and hope to see it returned in time for other friends’ visits at Thanksgiving.
We’re featuring it in next month’s Fiction Lab book club at the RI. It will be fun watching Henry squirm when he is invited in for the post mortem.
Kristi, good to know! Although I’m sure Henry would prefer you to buy copies for your friends, rather than lend your copy out! :-)
Jenny, that would indeed be squirmworthy. I can’t imagine anything worse than a whole room full of people all discussing something I’d written. Oh, wait, PhD viva. At least everyone was sober and respectful for that though.
The Beast also has good taste
I’ll have to purchase Dr. Gee’s magnum opus for him when I return to the dryer parts of Europe.
And the Beast has got as far as book 7, indeed – impressive.
Pfft, cats reading books. Amateurs. I have pictures of my cat reading science papers! (I can’t readily find them, though. I need to start tagging my photos on my hard drive.)
It will be fun watching Henry squirm when he is invited in for the post mortem
I’m unshockable. You know this.
Kristi, good to know! Although I’m sure Henry would prefer you to buy copies for your friends, rather than lend your copy out!
Indeed. Buy it here! It’s very nice. You like. To date I have sold four (4) copies, but thanks to
my charisma – charmpowers of persuasionJenny’s kind offer of a perch at the fiction lab, I guess I might be selling a few more by November.Kristi – I’m very glad you enjoyed it!
My favourite example of the encounter of animals with literacy is this
and, in this Web2.0 age,
Now I have an iPhone I shall be unstoppable.
Eva, but have your cats helped to write any of your papers?
I am following in a proud local tradition. One of my postdoc supervisor’s papers thanks her cat as the source of the feline genomic DNA used in a multi-species comparison. The cat had its spleen removed, and my boss asked the vet if she could keep it!
Dude. That’s too far. A little creepy, isn’t it? The vet agreed to hand over the spleen? There weren’t any sort of biohazardous “here’s a faulty organ” types of issues? Just seems somehow… wrong. Could your supervisor have just as easily swabbed the cat’s mouth for DNA? That’s how they do it on TV, anyway.
Actually, no-one in our lab found it the least bit odd! The more species the better, in our field, and we needed way more DNA than you can obtain from a cheek swab. Kibble’s spleen sample was used by generations of students and postdocs.
See also this blog post about my worst ever day in the lab…
Not a paper, but my cat wrote a blog post once.
Henry. iPhone.
We’re all doom ‘d, aren’t we? Doom ’d
I know where you live. The iPhone will tell me, with Google Maps and directions. No-one is safe. Mwah ha ha ha ha!
Buying the book as a download is much cheaper, and your cat is less likely to sit on it.
But my cats sit on my computer keyboard and phone all the time!