• The Scientist by Richard Grant

    Life and Times of a permanently bemused post-postdoc. Nature Network's answer to the paparazzi.

    • On prostituting Nature for personal pleasure

      Friday, 29 Aug 2008 - 19:45 UTC

      Fantastic.

      In between the main and dessert at the Betjeman Arms


      Hello Maxine!

      I discover that I can slurp St Pancras’ wifi net workand liveblog the blogger’s dinner.

      Your task is to guess who said, “A thousand words between Norwich and Colchester” and “This is not that sort of website”?

      Last updated: Friday, 29 Aug 2008 - 19:45 UTC

      • Comments

        • Date:
          Friday, 29 Aug 2008 - 20:19 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          In can guess, but I’m not saying.

        • Date:
          Friday, 29 Aug 2008 - 20:27 UTC
          Jennifer Rohn said:

          I can report that Henry and Richard arm-wrestled, and after much grunting and sweating and general pissing-off of the waitstaff, it was declared an honorable draw.

        • Date:
          Friday, 29 Aug 2008 - 20:50 UTC
          Åsa Karlström said:

          haha, this is better than tv shows :)

        • Date:
          Friday, 29 Aug 2008 - 20:52 UTC
          Cath Ennis said:

          Yes but Matt has better photos

        • Date:
          Friday, 29 Aug 2008 - 22:29 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Photo Booth isn’t that good at long range shots…

          And how can a photo of Maxine by surpassed by anything?

        • Date:
          Sunday, 31 Aug 2008 - 15:13 UTC
          Scott Keir said:

          I can report that Henry and Richard arm-wrestled, and after much grunting and sweating and general pissing-off of the waitstaff, it was declared an honorable draw.

          Regrettably, the Gee/Grand Face-off Mudwrestle did not make it through to the Unconference final cut…

        • Date:
          Sunday, 31 Aug 2008 - 17:36 UTC
          Maxine Clarke said:

          Which one’s Maxine? ;-)

          Is this the first time that that word has been used (1) in a NN title and (2) on NN anywhere? If yes, then all I can say is that the identity of the perpetrator does not fill me with surprise ;-)

        • Date:
          Sunday, 31 Aug 2008 - 17:42 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          That Word has been used in Nature only three times in its history, according to our search engine. Twice in 1943, and once in 1976.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 03 Sep 2008 - 06:23 UTC
          Duncan Hull said:

          Hi Richard, nice to meet you (ultra briefly) at the dinner on Friday. The question I meant to ask you, but never got the chance was:

          How did you convince your funding body to pay for the trip?

          I’m intrigued to know because I’m interested in how you can sell blogging to our funding friends who dish out the cash.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 03 Sep 2008 - 08:43 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Actually Duncan, it wasn’t my funding body, it was the Faculty/Dept.

        • Date:
          Thursday, 04 Sep 2008 - 14:36 UTC
          Duncan Hull said:

          OK, so how did you sell it to your department? I’m just curious… (it might come in useful at a later date you see)

        • Date:
          Thursday, 04 Sep 2008 - 16:24 UTC
          Maxine Clarke said:

          Yes, Duncan, try it out on them for a train fare to London on 24 Sept to the BL evening. There was chocolate last time so it is definitely worth a shot.


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