Ok, so it turns out Google was saying my site was “infected by malware,” and traffic was dropping off.

But you didn’t bother to tell me (nobody did). Please – if you ever see a message like this on my site, let me know!

The problem appears to be fixed now. I’ve submitted the site for a re-review by Google to make sure.

I have a few new blog posts ready as soon as it clears Google.

Until then, I hope you are have a great weekend.

Morgan

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Over at the Naturally Selected Blog I’ve been writing the occasional post about science careers. The most recent post: “Who are you to deserve grant funding?” garnered a few “skeptical” responses.

One writes:

A very plausible pep-talk, but what objective evidence is there that excellence and self confidence are the most important, or even significantly important,>

I’ve long thought that university administrations had difficulty with the concept of running their “business” efficiently. Now I have proof.

Someone that I know very well (snicker) has had some funding for a few years to develop software infrastructure for next-gen sequencing data. This is important work, since next-gen data poses quite a challenge. The work was>

Last night I had a conversation with someone who is working at the PhD level in a very well known lab, who is ready to give up her science career to do something completely different.

She is not the first. Far from it.

Running a blog and doing consulting related to science careers I get to hear from many>

Events often conspire to force us to wake up and think about things in a new way. I'd had many discussions about whether the Apple iPad is a "necessity" or just superfluous fluff. Having my iPad grabbed from my hands on a train in Paris forced me to really think about this.>