A grant rejection 😔(not surprisingly in 13th Friday and also saw that coming as the reviews werent great) senior colleague learnt the news and said" hey want to go for a pint, I am buying?" Hell yeah Onwards upward!
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Today's highlight (so far)

Data analysis task that was so enthralling, my cup of tea went cold.

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#LifeOfPI I managed to set up a crossing to generate new #drosophila so the ERASMUS+ student starting in May could do their exp! Fingers crossed!

First two months of 2026 in #PeerReview

I've reviewed:
4 papers
3 grant applications

I've submitted:
1 paper
1 grant application
so I've “requested” ~6 reviews from the system.

So I'm in credit at the Bank of Peer Review so far.

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The frustration of having to convert a (beautiful) LaTeX document into a MS Word document for a journal is offset by the zotero plug-in for Word. It's MUCH better than it used to be under v7.

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81 x two thousand word mini dissertations marked in two days, think that's a #LifeofPi moment 😫😄🎉🥂

I hugely regret agreeing to review this paper.

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Successful London fly meeting
https://genetics.org.uk/events/london-fly-meetings/
#drosophila researchers got together this afternoon and my postdoc Yu-Chien also get to give her talk! Well done! We also have cheeky ramen lunch at Ippudo as a 尾牙 "wei-ya" a typical pre Lunar New Year outing to appreciate co-worker in #Taiwan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weiya
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Lecturing today. I know that pop culture references are hit-and-miss-but-mainly-miss when teaching a class of Gen Z folks. However, when ad libbing, they tumble out. I got away with a reference to "The Hunger Games" and De La Soul, but my mention of The Care Bears' Cloudmobile fell distinctly flat. Hey, it made sense to me at least.

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RE: https://genomic.social/@tangming2005/115973259757046980

As I am about to start my first project as PI (check out https://www.ciimar.up.pt/projects/initmapafish/ for more info!), where the goal is to use the same pipeline to analyse thousands of rna-seq data of fish, this resonates with me. And will definitely take this into consideration throughout the lifetime of the project. Any other recommendations? #lifeofpi #genomics

I completed my peer review of a grant application and submitted it (my third peer review in as many days). True to the cliché, I then received not one but two (2) peer review requests from a different agency.

Me: (sighs in Sisyphean)

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Spoke to a few people in my lab today and noticed they were wearing gaudy/loud clothes. Thought it was a bit out of the ordinary but didn’t say anything. Noticed others on the floor dressed similarly. Have now had it explained that it is to combat Blue Monday.

#LifeOfPI #FAC73 #PennyDrops

I was at the bar drinking when out of nowhere a man came and punched the bartender.

The bartender hit his head against the counter and died.

The owner tried to stop him but to no avail.

The man knew what was coming and I did to him what he had done before.

#visualnovel #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #indie #game #games #vn #adv #steam #gaming #aenigma #visualnovels #linuxgaming #linuxgame #krita #art #artwork #arte #retro #renpy #anime #gameplay #scifi #pc #wishlist #immersive #lifeofpi

Amusing anecdote from yesterday's speaker: two dev bio postdocs who worked on the project both quit science. One became a landscape gardener and the other one a crypto bro. Both earning significantly more money now than the PI on the project.

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Everything In Its Right Place

#NowListening
#Radiohead
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Sign o’ the times: a page advising authors on how to optimise their manuscript for SEO. It's written by Wiley's “Customer Content Marketing Manager”.

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/publish/editor-insights/enhance-your-article-s-visibility-a-guide-to-seo/

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@steveroyle Ouch.

Today I congratulate myself for living in a civilised country that recognises the need for two (2) consecutive bank holidays following hogmanay. I then immediately uncongratulate myself for writing a grant with a submission deadline of 7th January 🙄
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I booked today as annual leave and yet, I find myself typing this in my office. Fortunately, I’m not here for long but have already had to report a malfunctioning piece of equipment etc.

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Argh! #LifeofPI

On Friday, I literally said DO NOT order a $400 'keep-frozen' product on the Friday before Christmas, because it might get stranded somewhere.

Damnit, if I wasn't just about to leave for the holiday at 11:30 on Dec 24th when the FedEx guy found me in my office with said product.

Thankfully, it was the good FedEx guy who would find people rather than tossing it in a corner where no one would see it.

I am the keeper of some precious human cell lines over the next couple of weeks. Just had to passage and cryopreserve one line. It's the first bit of cell culture I've done in years. Pleased to report it's like riding a bike. Well, let's see if they survive.

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