Steve Flinter’s blog

Just a quick reminder, for those few of you who might have forgotton, that tomorrow is the closing date for the SFI Stokes Professorship and Lectureship programme.

I can’t believe that I haven’t blogged about this already – must have slipped my mind.
As most interested parties will already know, SFI has a new Director General – Dr. Frank Gannon. Frank is the former head of EMBL
Here’s the official SFI press release.
Frank is due to take up his post in early July.

The family and I are off on holidays shortly. Since 2004 it is necessary for all children to have their own passports, rather than being on their parents’ ones. Naturally, we left it too late to get around to organising the passport for our youngest, so I had to drop into the passport [...]

I’ll have to add my voice to what appears to be everybody else on the web in pointing out how ridiculous the London 2012 logo is.
One other blog I read pointed out that this jumble of nonsense is supposed to spell 2012. I had to do a double-take to recognise it.
Not an auspicious [...]