Not cancer, but science… Diabetes Talk and Healthy Eating

As the title says, this isn’t about cancer but it is about science, on Monday the 15th of February, there will be a talk at Foresterhill about diabetes, over 22, 000 people in Grampian have diabetes so this will probably be of interest to a lot of people.  The talk is open to anyone and [...]

Scottish Chromatin Group – Meeting and Webcast

This one is for the scientists, the Scottish Chromatin group are having a meeting next Wednesday (the 10th of February 2010).  The meeting is being held at the University of Edinburgh from 2pm-6pm, so obviously if you are in (0r near) Edinburgh you can just go along. Interestingly they are also webcasting the meeting, so [...]

Research Blogging Awards 2010

If you are registered on ResearchBlogging and would like to nominate my blog for their 2010 awards I’d be grateful.

If you have your own blog, you can register it here, and watch your number of readers increase.

If you don’t have your own blog but want to read lots of different peoples opinions on quality [...]

Merry Christmas

This will be my last post for 2009. I started this site in 2008 and I had 1,720 visitors in my first year, so far this year I have had 12,800, which is pretty amazing!  Hopefully this will continue to grow in 2010.

If you like this website please recommend it to a friend. You can [...]

Christmas Carol Concerts 2009

If you are local to Aberdeen you probably know that the staff of NHS Grampian put on a Christmas Carol Concert every year (the one in Aberdeen has been going for 22 years).  The concert raises funds for the children’s cancer charity CLIC Saergent.  The concerts usually sell out, so if you would like to [...]

Technical Difiiculties....

I have been having some trouble with the website, some pages are slow to load.  I’ve also had trouble updating the News section.  Bear with me!

Can you trust a scientist?

The UK government has a website called “Science and Society in the UK“, it is part of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. They want to improve build public confidence in science and improve science communication.

Apparently some expert groups are drawing up “action plans”.  Beyond that, I got a bit confused, I’m not sure [...]

Aberdeen Techfest 2009 – Happening Now!

This is just a quick reminder, for those of you in the Aberdeen area, Techfest 2009 is on now. It’s a festival of science and technology in and around Aberdeen.  If you are looking for something to do this weekend (19th-20th September 2009), then there is a family activity weekend down at the Beach Ballroom [...]

Cafe Scientifique – Aberdeen – Winter Programme 2009

Cafe Scientifique events run all over the world, including Aberdeen!  They are short lectures with time for debate and discussion at the end.

The next talk ties in with TechFest 2009 and is given by Dr Wendy Marsden from the University of Edinburgh on “Need Enhancing? Future Health, Future Humans” it is on the 16th of [...]

Techfest 2009 – Aberdeen Cancer Talk

You may know that Aberdeen runs a major festival of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics called “TechFest”, it takes place from the 11th to the 28th of September.

There are loads of different events on every aspect of science and technology (not just biology) you can find out more on the TechFest website where you can [...]