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.
The email idiocy continues…
For reasons relating to an announcement about a joint California-Canada cancer stem cell funding initiative, I subscribe to all email lists at the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine.
Every mailing list will inevitably result in a mix of useful and useless emails, but today’s message was more useless than most:
From: CIRM Press Releases [CIRM_PRESS_RELEASES@LISTSERV.CAHWNET.GOV]; on behalf of; CIRM ListServe [CIRMListServe@cirm.ca.gov]
To: CIRM_PRESS_RELEASES@LISTSERV.CAHWNET.GOV
Subject: don’t approve
Message: Here’s a test. Please don’t approve!
Oops.
Last updated: Friday, 30 Jan 2009 - 00:59 UTC
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Oh good grief. The tales I could tell.
Well I disapprove.
Quick! Hit “approve”! Hit “approve”!
That’ll teach ’em.
Richard G, any tales you’re able to share?
Bob, I have to admit that when I scanned my inbox by subject line, I did wonder who I’d pissed off, and why…
Richard W, I doubt there was that much thought behind it! I hope no-one got fired, because it gave me a good laugh.
I’m sure there’s a good joke hiding in here about not approving of stem cell research.
I’m equally sure that I don’t know what it is, though.
“New fundamentalist Christian marketing manager bad for business at CIRM?”
No, I don’t know either.