1. scientificactivist
  2. An Update from The Scientific Activist

An Update from The Scientific Activist

By scientificactivist on September 15, 2009.

As I indicated earlier this summer, the blogging would continue to be a bit slow as I entered the home stretch of grad school. Since then, I'm happy to report that I have submitted my thesis, successfully defended it, resubmitted a corrected version, and had my final thesis accepted. Within the next few weeks, I should receive a letter from Oxford officially conferring my D.Phil. (Oxford's equivalent of the Ph.D.) in biochemistry, and I'll head back to Oxford with my family in late October for graduation. Then, in November, I'll start a postdoc at the NIH.

So, I anticipate that the blogging will remain slow for the next couple of months, as I won't be settled in to my new job and new apartment until sometime in November. In the meantime, I'll be bouncing around from place to place; I'm currently visiting my girlfriend in LA, but later this week I'll head back to Texas before flying to DC to try to secure housing for myself. I appreciate your patience during this transition, and I'm looking forward to getting back in the swing of things before too long.

Tags
Life of Nick

More like this

An Interview with Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle
This time around, we're talking to Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle. What's your name? Shelley Alyssa Batts. I feel like you should now be asking me my favorite color and then the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow. What do you do when you're not blogging? Working on my doctoral thesis, re-…
Weekend Diversion: One Weekend Between Jobs
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone. It's not warm when she's away. Ain't no sunshine when she's gone And she's always gone too long anytime she goes away. Bill Withers' song Ain't No Sunshine has been covered by over 100 major artists since its release in 1971, but I think the original is still…
My Big News: Moving to Los Angeles
I don't know how many readers of "the Intersection" remember the blog's very earliest days. So let us reminisce: It was mid 2003, and I was living in California at the time, in Berkeley and later in Palo Alto. I'm not sure exactly when "The Intersection" launched, but I remember posting constantly…
Philadelphia!
Everyone wants to know what I'm doing in Philly this week. Me, too! Here's everything I know so far. I'm flying in on Wednesday morning, 19 November. At 5pm, I'm giving a talk on science blogging at the Kelly Writers house on the U Penn campus. Thursday, 20 November, is the big event: Janet…