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I'm leaving my post at the University of Leicester, so won't be using this account to support undergraduate students from Biological Sciences after that date. - Dr Jo Badge

Thanks for all your help, Dr Badge. May you find much happiness your new teaching career! :) I can certainly see you being a really supportive primary school teacher. - Zainab Chaudhary

See: http://www.nhs.uk/news... - Dr Alan Cann

and the excellent science-based post by Cancer Research Campaign http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2011... - Dr Jo Badge

‘Becoming a Biologist: Degrees and Careers in Biology’ has information about different types of degree and alternatives to degrees, qualifications you will need for further study, skills you gain from studying biology, and advice about careers you could do after a biology degree. - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

"Article abstracts typically say little about what the researcher has discovered or what the key findings are, what they are arguing as a ‘bottom line’, or what key ‘take-away points’ they want readers to remember. Here we present a simple ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts." - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

The Department of Health and Health Protection Agency run a "live" health emergency planning exercise each year within Strategic Health Authority regions in England. Exercise Greystoke aims to test the ability of the East Midlands emergency services and NHS organisations to respond to a mass casulaty exercise. This is the region's largest "live" emergency planning exercise to date, and they are recruiting volunteers that would benefit from this experience and play as "casualties" in the live element of the exercise, which will take place on the campus of the University of Loughborough on Tuesday 5 July 2011, i.e. after the end of the Semester for those in Phase One. Please find attached a summary with details of how to register. - Dr Jo Badge

I really struggled to get my head around the Q cycle but I think I know what's going on now. I made a little video of me explaining it in the hopes that A it might help others and B if I'm wrong someone can tell me. - Roisin Thomas from Bookmarklet

You're welcome. :) - Roisin Thomas

really great critical analysis of the recent report from WHO on mobile phones and cancer. - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

Like a one-man tribute band, Steve Jones plays Darwin's greatest hits. Unlike most tribute bands, he delivers a surer performance than the original. He is a more natural raconteur than Darwin and he knows a great deal more about Darwinian descent with modification - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

some new locations this year, including the church shown above - directions and information on the PDF file attached. Exams take palce all over the university, so you may not have been to some of these places before, make sure you know where they are. - Dr Jo Badge

The official timings state that Covenant Life Church is 10-15 mins from main campus, but I'd say more like 20 from the "science" end of the site - Dr Chris Willmott

“Making it up as you go along” may seem an odd title for a careers talk, particularly since Stuart Johnson [BSc(Hons) Biological Science 1995] was acting head of the University’s Careers Service at the time of the presentation. As he points out, however, the choice of title reflects both the route to his current role and the fact that not all undergraduates have a clear career path in mind whilst they are doing their degree. In these increasingly hostile times, however, there are plenty of things you can be doing to enhance your employability, even if you haven’t yet pinned down an exact job to aim towards. - Dr Jo Badge

Some really good tips there. - Roisin Thomas

I know you've all a little while before you need to start looking for jobs, but it's interesting to see what experience and qualifications you might need for great looking jobs like this! No harm in getting prepared :-) - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

I just read this. This sounds like such an incredible job, I just wish it was something I could apply for now :/. - Jaspreet Seehra

some great new help pages from ITS on using Blackboard and Turnitin from a student point of view. - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

I've emailed ithelp@le.ac.uk. What will happen if I can't access this and print it out by today? - Zainab Chaudhary

Glad you got it sorted! - Dr Jo Badge

I am a bit confused about my module selection! - Paskuwal Kosalie Mendis

Yes thanks. - Paskuwal Kosalie Mendis

Do you mean the figure has come another source? If so include the citation to the source. - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

Sarah says thanks :) - Laura

http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/2010... some great advice here on keeping your writing free of 'spare' words. Great if you are over a word count and need to edit down. - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

Should be fine. Editing us a good discipline though, try leaving it a day and coming back to it for one last look. - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

There is some great practical advice on editing here: http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/2010... - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

I don't think we've been told yet - I haven't heard anything, and it's not on Blackboard from what I can see. I hope we find out soon. - Sarah Bowell

there is information on blackboard about phys/pharm dates and venues for poster presentations.#BS2060 - Dr Jo Badge

Check on blackboard, details about assessment should be on there. - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

Yeah the exams are different, I'm not sure how different but they keep saying they will be 'tutorial style' I think. - Rachel Price Tate

The exams were definitely different last year and were very similar to the tutorial questions. - Alice Merrill

Just been told that we have got funding for my summer internship with Dr Cowley... Very excited :) - Lyndsey Wright

Congratulations Lyndsey! What will you be doing? - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

We are looking at class I HDACs (histone deacetylases) and how they are recruited into co-repressor complexes to see the effect on gene expression :) - Lyndsey Wright

"Dr Adam Rutherford takes the viewer on a rollercoaster ride as he explores the consequences of one of the biggest scientific projects of all time - the decoding of the entire human genome in 2000. Adam discovers that every human carries the entire story of life on earth hidden in his or her DNA and sees how we are all linked directly to the origins of life and to the first creatures with backbones. He also investigates the implications of the fact that for much of its existence, the human race was an endangered species." - Dr Alan Cann from Bookmarklet

Just watched this - was quite good. Made better by sending off for free chromosome fridge magnets!! - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

Student Development is changing it's name - vote now and have your say on what it should be. It's YOUR service! - Dr Jo Badge from Bookmarklet

Go to the Help Zone in the Library. - Dr Alan Cann

You are definitely registered on these courses. Please ask IT services for help. You can email ithelp@le.ac.UK if you are not on campus - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

I can view all of them now. got it sorted. Thank you for the help. - Paskuwal Kosalie Mendis

this is not due in until next term, if you have finished this early, please hang on to it. There will be a Turnitin Assignment for you to submit the essay on the BS1008 blackboard site next term. There was a 2010 link for submitting last year, if this is still showing, please don't use it! Email Dr Cane (crc@le) if you have any questions. - Dr Jo Badge

seriously! well, at least I've got it out of the way. Thanks for finding out... I had the 12th down in my notes as the deadline and now I wonder why. - Luc Tardy

Perhaps it was the 12 May not April? I don't have the deadlines to hand, but it is due in in May. At least you are one essay down now :-) - Dr Jo Badge

Just finished the "Darwin" BS1008 essay, does anybody know if we're just meant to submit via turnitin or if we should email it to anyone? Also I have the deadline written down as the 12th but I'm not sure thats right... any ideas? - Luc Tardy

Hello Luc, Dr Cane is taking care of this. There will be a new Turnitin assignment for you to use nearer the time that the essay is due in (not until the beginning of next term). I suggest you email Dr Cane if you have any other questions. - Dr Jo Badge

My main aim this week was to get my choices for 2nd and 3rd year chosen. After a good talk with my personal tutor I came to a decision. But I would still like to know what the different modules actually entail as I feel as though I making a decision beased on the mosule title, which makes me feel a bit uneasy. I still cannot believe that the sememster is nearly over as well. - Yewande O

Thank you soooo much Gifty :) - Yewande O

given today's date I'm wondering if I should ask my cat to write my diary for me this week: http://www.youtube.com/watch... he would probably say 'Jo's been busy trying to deal with the problems caused by Blackboard when the third year students submitted their Oral Presentation slides on Monday. In the end it turned out Blackboard wasn't broken, but we used a different submission system that doesn't send email confirmations, so lots of students panicked. Very understandable, but lots of work for her! She is looking forward to getting some writing done once term has finished next week. ' :-) Have a good vacation everyone. Remember that Friend Feed will still be here while you are off campus, a good way to connect with your peers and motivate each other to get some revision done! - Dr Jo Badge

That's an incredibly amazing app !! Is it real ? - Abdulkhaliq Alsaadi

Haahaahhaa I love this! You can be Dr Doolitle :). Oh how I love April Fools! - Jaspreet Seehra

Its been a good week, got all my work done and handed in before the holidays. Disapointed in my BS1005 essay grade but I kinda get why I didn't do too well... guess I'll just have to make it up come the exams. Its weird that we're on holiday now, not that its going to be very relaxing since I have too much revision to do. Also wondering when our friendfeed assignment for #BS1011 ends, any ideas? - Luc Tardy

#bs1011 ends at the end of term = today :-) - Dr Jo Badge from iPod

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