Frank invited me to give a talk over at his gaff (thank-you, Frank).
Professor Sir Frank Norman, in his office at NIMR. Yesterday
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Zoological Discrimination
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- Wednesday, 15 Jul y 2009 - 08:48 UTC
I also met Michael Sargent, author of Biomedicine and the Human Condition, a popular science book that deserves to be much better known than it is, partly because it’s the only one I’ve ever read that makes immunology intelligible.
Michael Sargent. Yesterday. ObviouslyThe dog wanted to come, and some of the chickens were quite eggcited, but they had to wait outside.
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Oh dear, so why did they let the humans in?
Hi Henry – just noticed, it is Nature Network, not Nature Networks (in your serious profile statement).
Lovely caption to the pic of Frank – bring on the day!
Thanks Maxine – Serious Profile Statement changed (the Slightly Silly Profile Statement will have to wait).
Thanks Henry! Your un-talk was informative and entertaining as ever. I also enjoyed your ongoing Twittering. I got my own back for that photo, which makes me look gynecomastic, by taking this one of you.
_Henry, after the talk, in the bar. _
Bloody Hell
I see the diet is going well, Henry – keep up the good work. Are you Twittering your round in, there?
It’s somehow reassuring to me, in the midst of two manuscripts at the moment, to see piles of papers and books in Professor Sir Norman’s office.
piles of papers
I just hope our Safety Committee don’t read Henry’s blog … they don’t like my piles of papers.
Our Safety Committee has bigger fish to fry, such as ZOMG cloth seats on chairs in the cell culture lab ELEVENTY!111.
Frank, you look positive diabolical. I think we need a caption competition for that one.
’That’ll be fifteen shillings, love’
I see the diet is going well, Henry – keep up the good work.
(sigh). I think I’ve fallen off the wagon.
The axle broke.
Oi, shortarse, I didn’t ask for your comment.
But you got it anyway, cos that’s the kind of loving guy I am.
(smooch)
Hi, Henry you gave nice information about zoological discrimination. We should follow suggestions to provide safeguard to animal kingdom.
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William Brown
Sapience
Kristi< Funny enough that was exactly my thought too :)
Probably something to do with the fact that my office space is going to shrink since I am going to share it with two more and I might have slightly spread my stuff (papers) in a silly way erhm still don’t think it will save me from decreasing space though.
Henry> I wonder what you said in the talk. Was it an overall discussion about publishing, where is it going? Or more “how to publish?” or??
btw, is there anytime when you don’t have the Iphone with you? (just curious since I still haven’t gotten one and I’m wondering if that might be a good thing since everyone seem to be addicted to it)
btw, is there anytime when you don’t have the Iphone with you?
@Åsa. Indeed. I’ve been doing some background research in
my local high streetthe background vis a vis the apparent fact that all photos of Dr Gee of late feature his i-phone, how can I put it, appearing as if has been surgically attached to his right hand.Follows my i-hypothesis, thus far™.
As some of us know, a few weeks ago (as transcribed here on I,Editor), Dr Gee was allegedly attacked at the Maison Des Girrafes.
From his report:-
A fight broke out between two male guinea-pigs in one of our EcoMo™ Rodent Powered Lawnmowers. As I attempted to remove the victim, the testosterone-fuelled assailant literally launched itself through the air and took a bite out of my right hand. It hung on with a demoniac grip and only removed itself when I lifted my hand, literally, out of the enclosure.
We were provided with the following evidence of an injured hand:-
Bear with me.
What Dr Gee failed to publicly disclose was the fact that this was part of an i-experiment that he has been planning for many
mothsmonths.Follows the un-doctored image of the above image.
As can be clearly seen, a mini i-phone hand implant – MIPHI™ was implanted, behind previously unclosed doors.
The surgery appears to have been a complete success and the hand and MIPHI™ appear to be getting on swimmingly as can be seen in this most engaging before and after set:-
after
before Does this bus go to the station, Madam?
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And don’t forget that next week, Dr Gee will be having a pair of i-teeth™ implanted in his upper jaw, thus not only completing the m****g l**k saga but also…..
@Åsa: I wonder what you said in the talk. Was it an overall discussion about publishing, where is it going? Or more “how to publish?” or??
More ‘or’, really. But srsly, it was a discussion about how we editors do thiongs at Nature. I say ‘discussion’ because the way it works is I stand up and talk for 10-15 mins then open it up for questions for the remainder of the hour or so. People are always bursting to ask questions about peer review, supplementary information and so on that I am happy to be led by what the audience wants, rather than what I choose to tell them.
btw, is there anytime when you don’t have the Iphone with you? (just curious since I still haven’t gotten one and I’m wondering if that might be a good thing since everyone seem to be addicted to it)
No. For corroboration, ask Mrs Gee.