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Interesting Seminar at Columbia Today
From their Web site: “Scientific Publishing at a Non-Profit Organization: or How to Get Your Name in Every Issue of JACS” Presented by Sonja Krane, Ph.D. Managing Editor, Journal of the American...
View ArticleChemical Search Traffic
Sorry to get all “meta” on you guys again, but I think this is somewhat interesting. There are four basic types of posts on this blog. The first are those that deal with the “nuts and bolts” of...
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Less Talk, More HTML
Next March, the ACS National Meeting is coming to the happiest place on Earth. If you want to be there with Mickey, Donald, and me, you’ll need to submit your abstract soon. The deadline for the...
View ArticlePowerPoint Shortcuts That’ll Make You Less Annoying
There is no feeling of helplessness quite like that of being stuck in a terrible presentation with no possibility of escape. While the standard cause of this misery is insipid material, the misuse of...
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Chemistry Cards: Breathing Life into a Lame Idea
One question that people always ask me is: “Paul, what is your best blog post ever?” Actually, no one has ever asked me that question. But if someone did, my clear-cut winner would be this post I...
View ArticleThe Unwritten Rules of Chemistry Seminars
In the discussion that followed the arsenic-for-lunch post, commenter CR and I got into a spirited debate about the rules of etiquette for scientific presentations. It was my contention that it is...
View ArticleNomadic Professors and Other Thoughts from Anaheim
I jotted down a couple of things from the recent ACS conference in Anaheim, where on the whole, I had a good—but not great—time. I think there is one big thing that is missing from ACS conferences,...
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Poster Boy
Going to an ACS national meeting is like going to Applebee’s—there’s an extensive menu that seems great at first glance, but when you’re actually inside, the experience is distinctly mediocre. And if...
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A Quick Programming Note: “Communicating Chemistry”
While the experience probably won’t be as meta as a seminar on how to give seminars or a paper on how to write papers, I am stoked that Stuart Cantrill will be visiting Caltech this Friday to give a...
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Godspeed, Mr. Baum
If you haven’t heard, Rudy Baum—is retiring as editor-in-chief of C&EN. Today, at the ACS meeting in Philadelphia, his tenure at the magazine was celebrated with a special symposium on...
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Chemical Nostalgia: My First Conference
The Capitals beat the Maple Leafs yesterday, which for some strange reason made me think about what a great time I had at my first scientific conference, in Toronto. It was a meeting of The...
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PowerPoint Peeves and Chemistry Arrows
ChemBark’s ongoing series on PowerPoint advice continues with a look at another one of my irrational pet peeves: the “fat” reaction arrow. If you are writing reactions in a text box, chances are you’ll...
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Who Cares?
Another summer has come to an end, and we’re already two weeks deep into the fall semester. I spent part of my last day of summer freedom updating my calendar for the semester, and it was not pretty....
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