This is Leonard’s disciple motto, and it is also the title of this major piece of art (designed and painted by Paul Picard, my grand-dad) which has now found its home in my office. Challenge: how many of the characters on the frame can you identify (answer in the comments box please)? A higher resolution [...]
Archive for the ‘Public understanding of science’ Category
Is our sytem broken?
Posted in Public understanding of science, Science and ethics on May 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our system, in this post title, refers to the way “we”, i.e. the scientific community in its wider definition, make science and interact with the public/industries/governments etc. That our system is failing is what Darrel Ince suggests in this Times Higher Education article. The article focuses on one particular story where clinical trials were started [...]
Blood or Ribena? Gold…
Posted in Public understanding of science, tagged school on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago, Chris and I participated to a science fair at a local secondary school. We had some plastic tubes containing a red solution on our table. Students were curious about these and asked what it was… Their best guess was usually “Blood” although two suggested “Ribena”. When we were explaining that it [...]
Young researchers
Posted in Public understanding of science, Teaching, tagged Teaching on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stephanie and Daniel spent four weeks in the lab doing experiments on peptide-capped gold nanoparticles. They were funded by the Nuffield foundation. Apparently they had fun. They will present their results in October at a special event with friends, families and colleagues.
Speak up, scientists
Posted in Public understanding of science, Science and ethics on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Frank Gannon editorial in Embo reports describes all these things which have been happening “on our watch: the ruin of the environment, humanitarian disasters, dwindling resources and the financial crash“. He asks hard questions about our responsibilities as scientists and concludes with a call for engagement: “There are major challenges ahead and business as usual [...]
Young scientists
Posted in Public understanding of science on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nuffield Science Bursaries offer up to 1000 funded places a year, so that students across the UK can get an insight into the world of scientific research and development, including areas of technology, engineering and maths. This summer, Sophie, Craig, and Kirsty joined our lab for ~ 5 weeks. Sophie and Kirsty looked at the [...]
