Waiting for the cells to grow

An occasional blog featuring the idle thoughts of a scientist running a research lab in a medical school.

Blog articles (new series: the most recent article is at the top)

• Watching kidneys getting nervous
• Ian's pipe dreams coming true
• Feverish writing
• Science fiction
• A near miss
• Decolonizing science
• Imposter syndrome
• A time capsule
• Pharm-ecology
• You know you are getting old when...
• Julia's eggsperiments.
• Science is hard enough without this!
• Private eyes and public suffering.
• Ouch!
• The price of ignorance.
• Reading up.
• Word perfect.
• The Beadle and the Paranymphs.
• Making a connection.
• Blue remembered hills.
• Burning books
• The end of an era.
• The unfamiliarity of a familiar place.
• From ES cells to urothelium.
• Worn keys.
• Science in the sun.
• Map-making in a hurry.
• A small contribution to the fight against COVID-19.
• Credit where credit's due.
• The stage or the screen?
• Who ordered that?
• Optimistic about pessimism (and vice versa)
• Insignificant significance, and new (academic) year's resolutions.
• Waites and Measures (2). 
• The power of architecture, and the architecture of power.
• Ask a silly question...
• The skills of immigrant plumbers.
• Don't quote me.
• Night School.
• Scooped!
• A joke no more.
• A new tool from Ireland.
• Disturbing reading.
• Waites and measures.
• D'Arcy and the philosophers.
• The contract.
• Board in the office.
• A storm in a D cup.
• Freedom to fail.
• Reality Check
• Chris takes the you-know-what.
• Another ugly fact.
• Elise's holey relic.
• The student voice, going right over our heads.
• Keeping it real.
• The charity shop 2: a partial answer.
• Bloody cyclists
• Prof code
• An ugly fact
• Cliches made real - for everybody
• Piping for beginners
• Mene, Mene, Tekel... (Part 2)
• Megan, the ghost hunter
• A more educated guess
• And today we have Naming Of Parts
• Tea and cakes in the cell culture lab
• The charity shop
• The hole
• Rising without trace
• Flexible working works
• 568ml of science
• Painting by numbers
• Automatic writing
• Teaching on the other side 
• Where have all the mad scientists gone?
• Please call me Jamie
• Look Ma - no giants!
• Portland Place
• Listening for the echo
• Transports of delight
• Genius shows most clearly from behind
• Retraction then publication
• The creative power of self-loathing
• The giftie
• Strange perspectives
• Gifted teachers
• Second childhood
• Six drugs, Rac and Rho
• Teaching in the Tyrol
• Mene, Mene, Tekel...
• Wie der Nase des Mannes...

Contact: jamie.davies@ed.ac.uk

lab web page http://golgi.ana.ed.ac.uk/Davieslab/