Thursday, 10 April 2014

The importance of cell referencing in Excel spreadsheets...

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Using Excel correctly in the lab is an important skill to develop, and students sometimes get this wrong by failing to correctly use cell re...
Thursday, 3 April 2014

Video of Paramecium, C. elegans and Gram stained bacteria

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The video below I put together from videos shot using the main teaching microscope during classes. The video shows Paramecium , C. elegans ...

End of a journey - no more blogging at Scitable

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For the last three years I have been blogging over at Nature Scitable about bioscience elearning and today, after 143 posts, I have decided...
Saturday, 9 November 2013

E-mail - dark social media? I think not...

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Yesterday evening, I had the privilege of engaging in a thought-provoking discussion with Alan Carr on the pervasive use of email in teachin...
Friday, 25 October 2013

Observing and genotyping C. elegans

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I had a fun day yesterday doing the " C. elegans " practical, which is part of the first-year labs. In the practical, we got to lo...
Sunday, 13 October 2013

Fun and games with Paramecium

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Last week we had our annual first-year 'paramecium practical'. The aims of the session were to familiarise the students with the mic...
Wednesday, 21 August 2013

It is all in the name…. Why am I (not) Dr Nick?

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In Malaysia, I am called Dr Nick.... And I couldn't understand why... Today, I found out. In Malaysia, there are no family names, as ...
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