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  1. “High Affinity Binding to Profilin by a Covalently Constrained, Soluble Mimic of Phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate Micelles.”

    Why, it’s almost poetry!

  2. webbofscience

    Nothing like chemical terms that just roll off the tongue. When I took my thesis to the bindery (5 years ago– do they still bind dissertations?), the person writing the title down looked seriously horrified.

  3. Amy Rice Doetsch

    Your post made me think about what I am! An educator or a scientist? Alex & I have been calling ourselves “science educators” to distinguish/distance ourselves from actual educators, as they truly are a different breed. Is that a cop out? Or did we invent a new career path?!

    On another note, can you believe we graduated 5+ years ago! I was at the ASCB meetings a year ago doing all the same meeting stuff you did at ACS, and found it very empowering to know that 1) I still know enough to comprehend most of the talks and 2) I don’t have to do bench work anymore!

    To complete the longest comment ever, no they don’t bind dissertations. Alex’s is digital.

    • webbofscience

      Absolutely not a cop-out. It’s interdisciplinarity! I’ve actually been thinking about that concept a lot lately– science was once this very connected set of ideas that we then divided into subjects: biology, chemistry, physics, etc. And people have recombined those– biophysics, etc. The world needs more people who can think about science and integrate it with other ideas– so let’s create our own categories, as long as they’re meaningful.

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