While some of the comments are specific to US-based researchers, one of my favourite blogs touched on a topic close to my heart yesterday. FemaleScienceProfessor wrote about how difficult it is for (some) graduate students to understand the inherent challenges of grant funding and supervising.

A long time ago, when I was in an academic research position, there was uncertainty about the continuity of our funding and rather than wait around I went looking for new opportunities. Ironically, the grant funding came through in spades, but I had started my path onto a new adventure – working for the government. I don’t regret my choice, but I occasionally wonder at the diversions my path would have taken to get me to the same place I am today.

I am hoping to integrate a few updates into the site – watch out for construction curves ahead.

In an effort to “get with the times” I am pleased to let you know that I am now on Linkedin and ZoomInfo. Connect with me, recommend me and all that social media jazz.

My ZoomInfo Profile

I am pleased to announce that I have added a new feature to my website to provide better service to my clients. I now have a secure file transfer utility available!

It must be the geek in me that is terribly excited about this. To explain, this will make working with and transfering files larger than 10MB much easier. Hooray!

I know that I have been a bad little blogger lately, but I find it nicely ironic that all sorts of interesting spam finds its way into my blog comments. Thank goodness for filters and my ruthless use of the delete key! How are these people (or bots finding me)? I tried to see how my search engine optimization project is working and since it has been getting about as much attention as this blog, I’m not ranking very high in the search engines. The spammers must have fabulous search tools! Why don’t they market that rather than porn and dubious quality pharmaceuticals?

I would however, like to see some real comments on the posts – is there anyone out there and reading this stuff? Perhaps confirmation that I am not just blogging to the void would motivate me to be more proactive with my postings. If wishes were horses . . .