Category Archives: blogging

Twitter

Posted on April 3, 2021 by An Bollenessor

Breaking (ahem): I have f i n a l l y joined twitter. Although some of my misgivings about this medium were rapidly confirmed, I hope it will be a useful tool to keep abreast of new findings and also … Continue reading →

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Altmetrics

Posted on February 20, 2017 by An Bollenessor

I recently had a paper accepted and therefore dutifully registered it on the University’s Symplectic database. This forms a repository for all the publications generated by the university, which is of course a vital tool for summarizing research output (for … Continue reading →

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Group Update

Posted on April 6, 2016 by An Bollenessor

A very long while without a post on this blog, so high time for an update. This blog is mainly written by me with occasional (very good!) guest posts by members of Will Gaze‘s group (see e.g. here). It features … Continue reading →

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twitter

Posted on February 11, 2015 by An Bollenessor

Two weeks ago I visited collaborator Adam Eyre-Walker at the University of Sussex in Brighton. Adam and I have been working on a paper exploring what selective forces underly the rate with which bacteria take up new genes, using insights … Continue reading →

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Is every bacterium everywhere?

Posted on January 6, 2015 by An Bollenessor

I posted some excerpts from a paper in progress a while back (How many species of bacteria are there? and Bacteria vs. Animals). Here another post on the question “Is every bacterium everywhere?” (then I will stop and just link … Continue reading →

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a lottery system for grant proposals

Posted on October 16, 2014 by An Bollenessor

I read a series of commentaries a couple of weeks ago in Dutch newspaper ‘de Volkskrant’ on the functioning of national research council NWO. As science funding generally works the same across different countries, most of the discussion could be … Continue reading →

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Introducing BSc student Abigail Colclough

Posted on September 11, 2014 by An Bollenessor

Bachelors student Abigail (Abi) Colclough started her year long placement in the lab in July: high time for an introduction! She has written a first blog post here and will write more on her project on a blog she has … Continue reading →

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Little changes: meet the Rinkidinks

Posted on January 30, 2013 by An Bollenessor

As mentioned in a previous post: former colleague Tiffany Taylor has a children’s book out explaining evolution. Do your kids a favour and downloaded it as a pdf for free!

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A Field Guide to the Bacteria?

Posted on January 11, 2013 by An Bollenessor

I regularly check prolific blogger Jonathan Eisen’s website the Tree of Life, and lately have been thinking about his dream of producing a ‘field guide for microbes‘ (I limit myself to the bacteria). Like Jonathan, I make frequent use of … Continue reading →

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Missing Link: Hidden Ecologies

Posted on January 7, 2013 by An Bollenessor

A very cool site I stumbled upon a while back is Hidden Ecologies. This project is based in San Francisco’s Exploratorium and documents the ecology of SF’s South Bay from two very different perspectives. The first is from high above, … Continue reading →

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