Writing my first cover letter for a journal article today - my PI's always taken this on before.  I basically had no idea of what to write.  So, using the magic of google, I found some cover letter examples that other people had made available.  And thought I'd pass on the love.  It comes from a blog called Science for all.

And once I've decided if my effort is any good, I'll post it and give people another version to get ideas from.

Traffic ruining my career

Ok, so maybe that's a bit harsh.  However, as mentioned yesterday, I'm meant to be submitting a paper today - just a bit of analysis coming from my Boss.  Should have been easy.

Unfortunately - my usual 1h 15min drive to work was turned into a total train wreck, by a car crash (mixing vehicle metaphors).

Hopefully the day'll get better, but at this rate I'm probably not submitting the thing until monday.

Digging around in Genomes

I'm currently writing a paper (more on that tomorrow when we submit it) in which my PI describes me as a Genomic Archaeologist - which I thought was a pretty fine name for a blog.

Genomic archaeology (pretty similar to Genetic Archaeology I guess, just larger scale) does actually pretty much describe my current project - we're digging around in genomes to find old sequences, tracing their lineage back and trying to predict when they originated and what happened to them on the way.

So that's pretty much what I'll be talking about. And maybe a bit of actual archaeology as an aside!