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It might seem a more than gruesome recipe for many. More if we think that these were the ingredients of the headline for an article published in the Medical Daily to report on the findings of recent work appeared in the journal PNAS. As it usually happens, there was a lot of the two first…
Not that long ago I learned about a paper published by the lab of Björn Brems about the big fraud that impact factor in scientific publishing is when it comes to being an actual measure of how good science is. Not that it was news to many of us but it comes with a wealth…
People say: You get used to everything. And it’s true that when far away you get used to eating at times you would have otherwise considered crazy, and even to eating stuff had we been asked beforehand we would have denied more than three times ever getting close to our mouths, but there are things…
The other day talking to some members of our Asociation of spanish scientists in Germany (CERFA) we came to topic of writing. It might seem a bit far fetched, that is, if you don’t know that science involves more than the work done on a bench, at a microscope or in front of one or…
Long time no see…Sorry I haven’t posted anything in english for quite a while but I have a perfect excuse: I was on holidays. In Paradise aka Cuba. While in there I had time to catch up with sleep, recharge my vitamin D reservoirs for the winter and taste a bit (only a bit 😉…
Even cavemen were scientists. Thanks to their curiosity we managed to discover fire, to invent the wheel and develop all those tools that in time lead us to the fancy cars, computers and phones we use today. But today it might happen that we have to go back to playing with stones and sticks, at…
Politics slips into everything. From the moment you turn on the TV at home to the minute you open the newspaper to read while you drink your morning coffee and even here, in the lab when it comes the time to discuss budgets and project proposals. But it is not just the good-ol’ politics that…
There are days like these, that suck. Days when you ask yourself, what am I doing here? Days where it seems like the motivation dose they gave you at your scientific baptism (if such a contradictory thing could ever exist) has run out. Not a single drop left. And even then, you get up, get…