Today I was browsing through recent articles in Nature, looking for a potential genetics paper to present for my department’s Journal Club. ” “Somatic coding mutations in human induced pluripotent stem cells” catches my eye – I mean, come on, doesn’t that sound absolutely fascinating? I happen to glance at the name of the first author.
“Wait…Athurva Gore? …Who’s studying biomedical engineering? Hmmmm… Is that just a more common name than I think?”
After a couple seconds of Googling, I find a photo of him and some other scientists in their native habitat (awkwardly posed in front of expensive equipment) and confirm that yes, that is my ex-boyfriend’s friend that I spent a good part of undergrad hanging out with. Who I am now rediscovering while browsing genetics literature. Odd.
Congrats on the Nature paper, Athurva!
Well, if you even read this. I have no idea what the protocol is about reading friends’ ex-girlfriends’ blogs. Blogs before bros?
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loreleion
April 5, 2011 at 4:00 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Blags before stags?
Gregory Colby
April 5, 2011 at 4:15 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
1. No, it doesn’t sound all that fascinating, but I’m more of a long-view, population genetics kind of guy.2. The world of evolutionary biology especially is incredibly small and intertwined; I doubt that anyone in the field has more than six degrees of separation from either Haldane, Sewall, Fisher or Wright. It can be weird sometimes.
Ted Powell
April 5, 2011 at 6:53 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
A few days ago we just got around to watching an episode of Harry’s Law we PVRed February 21st, “Bangers in the House” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt17…In that case, it was gang member dates ex-girlfriend of member of rival gang, rival gang-member torches first gang-member’s car. Harry and her assistant get to negotiate and avert all-out gang war—in the neighbourhood where she has her office.I trust things are more … umm … nuanced in academe.
Hans
April 5, 2011 at 10:44 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
First author on a nature paper in his 20s (I presume)? That is a phenomenal accomplishment.
Clora Axsom
November 19, 2011 at 12:00 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I really dont understand why some people feel the need to be so argumentative.