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All At Sea

Posted on August 9, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

This quite good article on a recent paper out of our lab (and this quite bad, or at least frustrating, one) reminded me that I should probably explain where I’m going for the next two weeks before I go and … Continue reading →

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The Fourth

Posted on July 9, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

We spent the Fourth of July in New York, as Mike had to work down there the day before and after. I enjoy it as a holiday because it’s so quantitatively different to Waitangi Day as a national celebration, i.e., … Continue reading →

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On the Cape

Posted on May 29, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

The best thing about my prelim last week being moved to Monday was that it freed me up for the drive to Woods Hole on Thursday morning. Given that Woods Hole is a decent three hours in good traffic from … Continue reading →

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Cons and Conferences

Posted on May 1, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

I was a little worried about getting from AbSciCon – in central Atlanta – out to the hotel in Roswell, a town just north of Atlanta, where JordanCon was taking place. I even seriously considered just getting a taxi, but … Continue reading →

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Presentations

Posted on March 27, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

This was going to be the week I blogged about my recent acquisition of my genotype, but my brain has been well and truly fried by giving my first departmental seminar this morning, so that’s going to have to wait … Continue reading →

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New York: Part Three

Posted on March 13, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

The last time we went to New York, we didn’t have to deal with any security, mainly because we didn’t really go anywhere with controlled entry. This time, we visited both the Empire State Building and Ellis Island, which have … Continue reading →

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New York: Part Two

Posted on March 5, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

The first time we came to New York, we didn’t have a lot of time to take in the general ambiance of the city, as it were, since we spent most of our 22 hours sleeping, talking to people in … Continue reading →

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New York: Part One

Posted on February 28, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

One of the things I like to tell people about Western Massachusetts which is both strictly true and kind of misleading is that we’re “only three hours from New York”, which makes it sound like an exciting day trip we … Continue reading →

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Getting Down To It

Posted on January 31, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

I’m staring down the barrel of this semester at uni with some trepidation. There are a number of major deadlines coming up, starting next week and not really stopping until mid-May. It’s basically like a preview of, you know, life … Continue reading →

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A road trip

Posted on August 10, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

(Quick preface: this is still sans pictures, mostly, but I’ll be editing them in when I get them. In the meantime…) When we set out for Baltimore, I hadn’t actually looked up how far it was, though I had a … Continue reading →

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