Michelle, prepping for her PhD Qualifying Exams, shows us how it’s done:
Step 1: Let a cat soak up all the knowledge. This may take some days. Two cats can alternate here – that’s fine.
Step 2: Hug the cats firmly. Note: there should be fur to skin contact.
So, so confident she’ll be fine!
From Andrea, ready to finally piece together the last logical steps of her “1000s of monkeys” complex stats model:
A nice new paper from Melissa Bateson and her post-doc Coline Poirier has just been published in Animal Welfare. They focus on telomere length and hippocampal volume, but I would add survivorship to the list (an old interest re-ignited by a cool BMJ paper I read for class showing that elected presidents die earlier than their unelected rivals); and in some species or strains, stereotypic behaviour too.
Amazing new paper in Science Advances, on bees doing maths:
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/2/eaav0961
And a nice write up here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/science/2019/02/06/study-bees-have-enough-brains-math/dtxrSdf7XFSdIrpZzCVpBL/story.html
A 10 lb baby called Oakland AND a submitted manuscript, all in the same week: now THAT’S productivity….
As this year’s OGS deadline approaches, Misha is working away on a manuscript that Lindsey is an author on. But he’s trying to meet another deadline too: the arrival of his and Gwen’s baby, due a few days ago now so it really all could start any second. This has prompted some vivid dreams: I dreamt Misha brought a baby to our next lab meeting, Gwen dreamt the baby was a kitten, and Misha dreamt it was a big black shaggy dog. Hopefully we’ll know the sex (and species?) very very soon.
Not to me but to a colleague. She wonders, as she makes her revisions, how much grammar is too much?
“try and remove excessive grammar”.
