TopicBlogs
2010
- No peeking...
It has been a busy and exciting few weeks, but I'm now ready to get back to business and do some research! By way of re-introducing myself to my own blog (and the blogs of others),…
- Blogs as a primary outlet for data
Blogs have an important role to play in making science accessible and fun. We're used to seeing blogs used to highlight and wax lyrical about interesting findings , disseminate critical scientific thought , and pass judgement…
2011
- Embedding Prezis into Wordpress.com Blogs
Having experimented with prezi a fair amount recently, I've been looking at ways to showcase the output on this blog, hosted on wordpress.com. Pasting the standard embed code into the 'HTML editor' just results in a…
2012
- Thinning grant proposal ideas
Image via Wikipedia Clare Rathbone , a memory researcher at Oxford Brookes, recently sent me the following Unsolicited Advice article by Julianne Dalcanton on how to navigate the early stages of writing a grant proposal: Discover…
2013
- Updated RSS feed
The blog is making a relatively straightforward transition from wordpress.com to a self-hosted wordpress.org installation. As the akiraoconnor.org domain is coming with me there has been very little disruption to Google indexing, which send most traffic…
- Blogs: Public Engagement for Introverts
Earlier this week, I attended the BBSRC Eastbio Annual Symposium, a meeting for PhD students funded by the BBSRC's doctoral training programme. The theme of this year's meeting was 'Making an Impact'. Alongside one or two…