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While Big Pharma's Great Recession rolls on (with GSK layoffs, BMS salary freezes, AstraZeneca layoffs and Pfizer cutting its internal R&D budget), the bigger picture is coming a little clearer and is just a little better than last month's. These days,...
Good morning! From Januaruy 25 to February 4, there have been 87 positions posted on the ACS Careers website. Of these, 32 (37%) are from academia and 2 (2.2%) are from our friends at Kelly Scientific Resources. Lots of industrial positions this time around...
Earlier this month, the BLS unemployment data came out. The official unemployment rate (U3) for December 2009 was released -- it's flat at 10.0%, compared to November. The total unemployment rate (U6) for December 2009 was 17.3%, slightly up from 17.2%. That's...
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linked to by 1UCLA has put out a press release, where they withdraw the appeal of the Cal/OSHA judgment against them on the case of Sheharbano "Sheri" Sangji, the research associate who died of burns suffered from a t-butyl lithium fire. I find the following paragraph of...
The Christensen article in yesterday's LA Times introduced a number of new facts into the public record about this case; some of these facts appear to be from the family's conversations with Sheri Sangji. They are as follows: 1) questions about the scale, 2)...
Beryl Lieff Benderly is apparently a science writer of some repute; she writes the "Taken for Granted" column of ScienceCareers. While most of her work seems pretty harmless, her recent article on the Science Careers website about the UCLA / Sheri Sangji case...
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C&EN has a comprehensive story out today on the lab fire and its aftermath at the University of California, Los Angeles.One of the things that has come up repeatedly while I’ve been covering the incident is the fact that, while industrial research...
It's been a worryingly long time since I last blogged properly (I can't really count uploading Reactions interviews, guest blog posts, or Stu's Twitter updates as proper posts!), but here I am again.So, what shall I blog about? Now that we have a proper journal,...
A big tip of the hat to Chemjobber, who recently pointed out a puzzling passage in a NY Times story about chemistry in the origin of life field. You can read the original post at Chemjobber’s site for the background, which I’ll briefly paraphrase...
