Kai ([info]elsewhere_adore) wrote,
@ 2009-05-29 13:17:00
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A carefully honed selection of lies
Or, Things I Learned From My Supervisor

-There are few sights as endearing as a grizzled academic to whom a possibly novel idea for a reaction has suddenly occurred.

-Studying an area of chemistry that nobody else in the department really gives a shit about makes poster sessions potentially hilarious. I sing the making-shit-up song.

-Apparently archaeology is a proper science. They publish articles in Nature and everything.

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[info]stagknight
2009-05-29 01:43 pm UTC (link)
-Studying an area of chemistry that nobody else in the department really gives a shit about makes poster sessions potentially hilarious. I sing the making-shit-up song.

Ditto computational chemistry, a.k.a. the making-shit-up symphony.

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[info]dwagon
2009-05-29 02:33 pm UTC (link)
I too know the joys of working in an obscure area :). Another upside is that you'll get basically no questions even at specialist conferences, and those'll probably be piss easy too.

And are you trying to say that Indiana Jones doesn't do 'Science!'?

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[info]elsewhere_adore
2009-05-29 03:58 pm UTC (link)
I would be willing to put money on the assertion that Indiana Jones has never had an article published in Nature. The Most Pulp Man In The Universe he may be, but Dr McPublish maybe less so.

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[info]stagknight
2009-05-29 08:06 pm UTC (link)
H. Jones; Blood magic rituals in Thuggee groups devoted to Kali, American Journal of Pulp Archeology, 1935. 5(2): p110-116.

H. Jones; Ritual and mysticism surrounding the Ark of the Covenant, American Journal of Pulp Archeology, 1938. 12(1): p144-156.

H. Jones, H. Jones; A novel interpretation of early Templar myth surrounding the Holy Grail, American Journal of Pulp Archeology, 1940. 3(3): p423-428.

H. Jones, Screw it -- no one will believe me anyway, Nature 2, 423 - 427 (1961).

The man's got to publish something to get all that delicious travel funding.

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[info]chemical16
2009-05-30 01:43 am UTC (link)
Surely it's Jones H., (2001) J. AM CHEM., (237 - 537) How I shot web?

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[info]elsewhere_adore
2009-05-30 09:10 am UTC (link)
Pleasingly enough, on page 423 of the 1961 issue of Nature is a short article concerning Australian Aborigines. Or, rather, a selection of comments concerning someone else's short article.

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[info]chemical16
2009-05-29 05:26 pm UTC (link)
"a grizzled academic"

Hardly the way I'd describe the Gaffers...

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[info]elsewhere_adore
2009-05-30 09:11 am UTC (link)
Fine then, 'bitter and harsh, twisted beyond recognition by prolongued contact with biologists'.

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