One of the biggest shocks for our students when they start projects is the difference between the highly scripted experiments in the undergraduate teaching laboratories…
Two students have just walked into the building, probably not chemistry, physics, astrophysics or forensic science students. They were discussing the smell of the building…
I’m running an outreach activity and we’ll be making alginate worms. I was testing my sodium alginate solutions yesterday as they tend to go off…
I was writing some lecture notes this morning when it occurred to me that I’d probably never told my students of some shortcuts that are…
I’m reposting this today as I’ve got a session with our 2nd years on information literacy this afternoon. We’ll be covering Web of Science searches…
One of the most spectacular chemistry experiments is flame tests. I think it’s a particularly elegant experiment, and also one that can easily be done…
As my colleague Dr Rob Jackson has just reminded me by way of a blog post, the semester is 1/3 over! He has a great…
I have a thing about reproducibility. I’m not the only one as this post on In The Pipeline shows. Nothing annoys me more than someone…
After a week of meeting with new project students, and answering many of the same questions several times, I’ve been scouting back through the archives…
The semester is 3 days old. The new students have arrived and are progressing through welcome week. 2nd and 3rd years are walking the fine…