Given the exotic and exciting things that scientist play with and produce you’d think that waste disposal would be staggeringly complicated. Special buckets for certain kinds of goo, shredders for tentacles and mops specifically for flaming puddles would seem to be the bare minimum an average lab would need. Actually Read more…
Contemplating the potential for personal redundancy as a result of too much daydreaming, Dr Matthew Partridge risks another few hours musing over the benefits and limits of laboratory processes run entirely by super-efficient, highly focused AI and robotics…
As of this week the ErrantScience store is closed. We’re very sorry for this as I know many of you enjoy our yearly xmas card and other badge goodies. Sadly however we have not yet managed to negotiate the complex and annoying Brexit based paperwork we need to keep the Read more…
This year we have again been live cartooning the Royal Society of Chemistry’s amazing twitter poster conference RSCPoster. In 24 hours we produced 14 cartoon abstracts and one video. It was exhausting and lots of fun. You can read all the tweets we shared at the link below. ErrantScience RSCPoster Read more…
To an outside observer research has a great air of focus, planning and careful consideration. From vaccine research to Nobel prize winning physics, research looks well organised and planned. To anyone that has ever worked in research then the reality is often confusion and a lot of eye rolling. But, Read more…
Humans are an inventive bunch. We’re not long out of the trees and our brains have already given us literature, art and the sciences. We are a creative species that constantly seeks to invent, create and problem solve. However, as smart as we are Nature is often one of the Read more…
This Christmas to try and keep our scientific minds active and not despair at experiments lost but think to new experiments we can do. If we can’t do experiments in the lab let’s do experiments on Christmas!
There have been many changes since the start of the COVID crisis. For one the frequency of articles that start “something something COVID crisis” have sky rocketed and I’ve never started so many emails with “I hope you are well” and meant it with genuine concern. But one change was Read more…
A year ago I wrote a post about feeling like an imposter because I no longer work in academia, but that the blog posts wouldn’t stop… That was the last blog post I wrote… It’s been so long that the interface on the website for writing these posts has changed Read more…
It’s a brave new world. Universities, once busy centres of social interaction, intelligent discourse and complex drinking games, have become ghost towns which echo with only the sound of remote learning servers.