Wisdom from one of my scientific heros, Ottoline Leyser, at #EMBOat60 yesterday

Overly-narrow criteria for success fuel anxiety, inhibit creativity, and crush the joy out of science.

She points out that "Groundbreaking' is an analogy from the building trade.. the first step before carefully putting one brick on top of another.

If you only fund groundbreaking research then you might only end up with lots of small holes in the ground.

New PI diaries: Hiring people and building a lab

Read this latest 'diary entry' from Margot Smit, a new PI from the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), University of Tübingen:

https://thenode.biologists.com/hiring-people-and-building-a-lab/careers/

Seen on the other place.

I have been mystified why K represented Lysine for many years. Undergrad #biochemistry lecturer said “I don't know why, but I assume it is because of the end of the side chain looks like a K”. Well, turns out the answer is more simple.

Source: M Eugenio Vazquez. Posted in honour of Margaret Dayhoff, inventor of the single-letter amino acid code