The annual Learning and Teaching in the Sciences event at the University of Leicester was held on May 23rd 2007. Three invited speakers brought very different insights into the effective communication of science. This entry focuses specifically on the first of the presentations. Other talks, by Melanie Cooper (Clemson University, USA) and Alan Cann (University [...]
Why is the site called Journal of the left-handed biochemist?
The name of the blog has its origins in lectures I give on referencing for university assignments. Not surprisingly, undergraduates sometime struggle to recognise that papers published in certain journals are deemed more worth that articles appearing in ‘lesser’ publications. To avoid potential offence to any particular periodical I would stress that “An article appearing in Nature [...]
What is the “Journal of the left-handed biochemist?”
I’ve been running the Bioethicsbytes site for a while now and am very pleased with the way it has been received by colleagues involved in education. That site, however, has a very specific niche focus on multimedia resources for teaching about bioethics. Several times recently it has occurred to me that something I was mulling [...]
