Test Tube Phoenix: Teacher help request.

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Sunday October 09, 2011 · 10:05 AM PDT

2011/10/09 · 10:05

It's been about two months since I wrote about my situation, as yet another displaced postdoc in the biosciences, the job market essentially frozen, hundreds of postdocs for every open position, and so on, as well as my solution - developing a new educational card game called Mutation. Game testing has been progressing nicely, but now I'm coming to the point where I need some help from teaching Kossacks, particularly those teaching middle school and high school. Follow me below the fold for some game development goodness!

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Thursday August 11, 2011 · 3:00 PM PDT

2011/08/11 · 15:00

It's been ages since I've written a diary, and this is going to be a really odd one -- a mix of hope and despair, of pleading and cynicism, a request for reassurance and even a bit of a sales pitch.

It's got it all. It's the story of the death of a scientific career in 21st Century America...and what may rise from its ashes.

Still with me? Follow me below the fold.

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Tuesday February 03, 2009 · 6:13 PM PST

2009/02/03 · 18:13

This is the first diary I've ever written on request; it was a diary to give some idea of why us young scientists, those few Americans among us that have stood by the profession for as long as we have, are fools. Brainy fools, but still fools, goes the conventional wisdom.

But those of us who have stuck it out, love what we do. I certainly do. Being a lab rat has been in my blood since childhood, and certainly since my young adult days of Christmas Counts and Breeding Bird Atlases.

There's a little research in it, a few links to folks better then I, but for the most part, it is anecdotal; most of what you will find about the science labor market is indeed anecdotal. I choose to center where I currently am; the postdoctoral world. Graduate school is a whole separate ball of wax (and deserves a journal of it's own).

Follow me below the cut for some facts, figures, links, and scuttlebutt from within the National Institutes of Health, of the uncertain future us young scientists are facing.

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Saturday September 13, 2008 · 6:33 AM PDT

2008/09/13 · 06:33

This is a personal diary. I don't really expect many to read it, but I do hope that at least DarkSyde sees it; he's been following my story.

Being a political junkie and in general, liking to keep up with news, these seem awful dark times. Obama's tied with McCain, Palin's winning the election, Ike is busy destroying a good part of our refining capacity (not to mention many lives in Galveston and Houston). The bad news seems endless. But I managed to complete a project that's taken me 15 years, against all odds...

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Friday June 22, 2007 · 2:24 PM PDT

2007/06/22 · 14:24

Today at my lab at Ohio State University, my boss (as well as several other professors in my building) received a most interesting book, labeled "Complimentary Gift", and "Scientific Atlas". We weren't too suspicious at first, since we receive these sorts of things all the time. But this turned out to be very different.

It turned out to be the Atlas of Creation, an innocuous-sounding title that, within the first sentence of the introduction, gave away its agenda...

(Continued after the fold)

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Saturday December 23, 2006 · 8:07 PM PST

2006/12/23 · 20:07

It appears Ohio is about to lose, or has already lost, all but one of it's progressive talk stations. This is a travesty, particularly in light of the near-total sweep of the Democrats in the state in the 2006 elections!

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Sunday November 05, 2006 · 6:56 PM PST

2006/11/05 · 18:56

Just a few reports from the field out here in cloudy Columbus, Ohio, doing GOTV canvassing for Mary Jo Kilroy.

You could subtitle this "the fledging of a canvasser". I've finally earned my bona fides. Read More

OH-15: Smells like desperation!

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Friday October 20, 2006 · 8:58 AM PDT

2006/10/20 · 08:58

In today's Columbus Dispatch was a story that highlighted just how desparate the Pryce campaign is getting after the dynamite Constituency Dynamics polling showing Pryce 12 points down. Read More

OH-Var: Advice on Absentee ballot?

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Monday October 16, 2006 · 6:06 PM PDT

2006/10/16 · 18:06

This is a very short diary, but one that many of us Kossacks must be asking in Ohio: what does one do with an absentee ballot once we receive it? Read More

OH-15: Blogging the Congressional Debate.

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Thursday October 12, 2006 · 5:52 PM PDT

2006/10/12 · 17:52

Here's a summary of my debate impressions. It's turned out fairly length, and is close to a liveblogging blow-by-blow as I can provide. I hope that it's informative to my fellow OH-15 Kossacks! Read More

OH-15: Sunny Sunday Part II -- no solo mio!

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Sunday October 08, 2006 · 2:34 PM PDT

2006/10/08 · 14:34

First of all, this diary has a somewhat darker tone then my last one, and it's a bit more personal; a mea culpa more then anything. However, bear with me through the personal stuff; there's good news at the end. Read More

OH-15: Canvassing on a sunny Sunday

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Sunday October 01, 2006 · 2:30 PM PDT

2006/10/01 · 14:30

So it was on a sunny Sunday afternoon that I completed my first canvassing assignment for the Kilroy campaign. It was a most interesting experience. Read on below the fold... Read More

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