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		<title>A trip to Switzerland anybody? Well, not anybody.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I know it has been a while, but you will be pleased to know I have used the time  absent from here wisely. I have managed to finish a couple of papers, ; I have improved my German exponentially (I now know 32 words rather than 1); and I got a knight costume for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karldcollins.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13704016&#038;post=877&#038;subd=karldcollins&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MIT Reality TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time worrying about the image of chemistry. I want people to know that you don&#8217;t have to be a &#8216;geek&#8217; to be great at science.  I also think this image can dissuade great young minds from following their instincts and passion for science (particularly chemistry of course) because they do [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karldcollins.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13704016&#038;post=871&#038;subd=karldcollins&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Secrets of an Academic Career</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chemistry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chemistry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you happen to be part of the academic system, how an academic career actually develops is not widely know or understood.  To be honest, even to those within the system, the whole thing is pretty damn confusing.  It is possible to skip certain steps, &#8216;fellowships&#8217; pop up at all different levels of the career [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karldcollins.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13704016&#038;post=859&#038;subd=karldcollins&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blue skies all the way to Mars</title>
		<link>http://karldcollins.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/blue-skies-all-the-way-to-mars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research Funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andre Geim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue skies research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[floating frogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kostya Novoselov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neil Armstrong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research funding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just turned thirty, I most definitely wasn&#8217;t around to see Neil Armstrong take those first inspirational steps on the moon way back in July, 1969. My parents were though, and to this day they remember exactly where they were and who they were with.  At 14 and 15 years respectively, and neither particularly scientifically [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karldcollins.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13704016&#038;post=851&#038;subd=karldcollins&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shameless advertising for the Mega Chemist Challenge</title>
		<link>http://karldcollins.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/shameless-advertising-for-the-mega-chemist-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karldcollins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemistry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As it has moved to a new home and you may not yet be aware, I just wanted to let you know that the clues for this weeks Mega Chemist Challenge are now out.  Just click here. Filed under: Chemistry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karldcollins.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13704016&#038;post=847&#038;subd=karldcollins&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scheduling issues!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oops.  Due to unexplainable reasons, scheduling over at the Mega Chemist Challenge was unsuccessful. The first posts are now up for your consumption. Filed under: Chemistry<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karldcollins.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13704016&#038;post=841&#038;subd=karldcollins&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;and I&#8217;m back</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chemistry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cadaer Idris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is it, the time has come to get back into the blogging world. I was recently asked to undertake a bit of writing as a blogger, so I thought it a little unreasonable to continue my sabbatical from my own blog and still claim my place as part of the science blogging community. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karldcollins.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13704016&#038;post=830&#038;subd=karldcollins&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming soon&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://karldcollins.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/coming-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It won&#8217;t be long before A Retrosynthetic Life returns with some regularity. I thought I would write a lot once I finished my PhD, but I am in 100% holiday mode.  I started writing the blog when I began writing my thesis i.e. when I was incredibly busy and should have been doing more important [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karldcollins.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13704016&#038;post=808&#038;subd=karldcollins&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to get that postdoc</title>
		<link>http://karldcollins.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/how-to-get-that-postdoc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karldcollins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Day to day PhD life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academic job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemistry jobs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Postdoc applications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[synthetic chemistry job]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following a quick twitter exchange with @Nic_Derbyshire, I sent her an email about how I went about my postdoc application.  I thought it would be useful to share my experience, and I have thrown in advice I have received from a plethora of sources as well.   It seems quite a fitting time to post [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karldcollins.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13704016&#038;post=786&#038;subd=karldcollins&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stories of the Day</title>
		<link>http://karldcollins.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/stories-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 18:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florence Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaia theroy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irina Popova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Lovelock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanya Gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaginagate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having temporarily  forsaken the shining lights and heavy atmosphere of Manchester city living for the clear skies and peace of East Yorkshire country life, my weekends have a different, less foggy, more wholesome feel about them. Today I mainly read the newspaper &#8211; a real one made of paper, not one of those pesky ones [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karldcollins.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13704016&#038;post=794&#038;subd=karldcollins&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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