The funniest things happen when you’re out in the middle of a field – or bog, jungle, desert, wood, moor, alpine meadow – trying your best to do science. Sometimes, the science doesn’t want to be done and your equipment stops working. Suw is looking for the best stories for a new film script and wants your help!
Working as a researcher is a job that requires a lot of adaptability. This is understandable given that the core of the scientific method could be loosely described as “I recon this might happen but let’s find out” which obviously leads to some variation in outcomes (e.g. oops that explodes Read more…
“Naively optimistic” – this was my opening to a blog post I wrote for Errant Science five and a half years ago, when Overleaf was approaching its fifth anniversary. Five years later, Overleaf is now ten, and after leading the team there for close to a decade I’ve recently moved Read more…
Today whilst reading twitter I read an advert by a newly graduated PhD student offering tutorship to current PhD students. Their advert was based on that they had finished their PhD early, had written a bunch of papers and got a follow up post-doc job. All very impressive. I only Read more…
Free stuff is the best! And a close second is cartoons. Here’s the recording of our 30min talk How To Cartoon Your Science
Throughout my career in science AI and automation have been things that were ever-improving tools in helping do science quicker and in bulk. AI and machine learning have slowly been improving the rate of data processing and even expanding the kind of data processing that’s possible. Automation has led to Read more…
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…