Given the overwhelming response to my previous post (thanks redditors!) I think I owe people a follow-up. I pinned my blog post on reddit just…
Continue reading Goodbye academia: The aftermath.
37 Commentssomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known
Given the overwhelming response to my previous post (thanks redditors!) I think I owe people a follow-up. I pinned my blog post on reddit just…
Continue reading Goodbye academia: The aftermath.
37 CommentsOne of my first memories is myself, 5 years old, going to my mother and declare to her, as serious as only children can be:…
Continue reading Goodbye academia, I get a life.
342 CommentsIt had to happen, and, if anything, what is surprising is that it took so much time. The whole point of the cables Wikileaks affair…
Continue reading Serious business, at last
5 CommentsI have been pointed today by my friend and brilliant scientist Giorgio Gilestro to an interesting blog post of his on how science should change.…
4 CommentsAfter more than a week alone at home, with incipient bronchitis, and thriving on dubious pseudofood, I am back in my office. Somehow, I am…
Continue reading The Prisoner has finished
1 CommentWhy did insects win? The question, to me, is not peregrine. Arthropoda include a lot of moderately to robustly successful terrestrial groups: Arachnida and the…
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12 CommentsThis blog/site is still very much a thing in progress ; yet I can’t stay silent on what I’ve just read on La Repubblica. For…
Continue reading A call to whistleblowers in geophysics: make Enzo Boschi irrelevant
2 CommentsConspiracy theorists -you know, the guys who simply refuse to admit that people walked on the Moon, or that climate is indeed changing- always escaped…
Continue reading I now understand conspiracy theorists
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