home cooked theory

Morning newspaper humour

Big business can be trusted to reduce greenhouse gas pollution without regulations or binding climate change targets, say the US and Australian governments.

Research careers

Just read in the Higher Education section of The Australian that the ARC is changing some of its funding rules ‘to create more opportunities for mid-career researchers’. The number of QEII and ARF fellowships could be increased by at least 20 this year and people will be able to apply again after their first postdoc [...]

Adminispamia

I can’t handle the spam anymore, so I’ve turned on what I think is Spam Karma 2. Let me know if you have any problems with comments…

Code pink petition

Codepink has started an online petition entitled ‘Women Say No To War’. Their goal is to get at least 100,000 women to sign it by March 8th. With your help they can do it. Go here to sign.

“Holidays”

Andrew Bartlett writes about the exact problem I’ve been nutting out for my ARC application: Mobile phones and being online at home do make it hard to completely switch off unless you’re really determined, and often it also hard to separate ‘work-related’ reading to ‘non-work’ reading… While I’m generally taking it easy and doing ‘non-work’ [...]

New year omens

You might have caught this story in the Saturday papers. I’ve been trying to find the incredible image published with it, but instead stumbled upon a flickr account which shows the action in a bit more context. In light of events like these, I’m finding this week’s predictions genre in the on- and offline media [...]