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Athena

I have a fun first term ahead of me - eight weeks of one of these...

1. Imputation of rare and common sequence variants in a British twin registry
2. Novel recombinational mechanisms in Neisseria meningitidis
3. Evolutionary investigation of autism-related genes using 1000 Genomes data

Just noticed this when glancing through gog soc in the postgrad forum a moment ago.
That really does look cool! I'd really be torn beween 1 and 3, although obviously I have a vested personal interest in 3. Still, I kind of hope to have twins some day. Apparently fraternal twins are passed down the female line and skip a generation. Since my mother is a fraternal twin, it looks like I could be lucky. However family planning could be difficult; I don't want to repeat the mistake of a relative of mine who had a daughter and a set of twins. She thought she'd have a fourth child, but conceived triplets :facepalm:

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ukebert

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I found a really cheap hostel and have had a really nice evening :biggrin:

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Athena

I only listed three third because it involves lots of stats ( :sick:

), or it would have been one or two. The meningitis project is in there because the guy running the project was my first interviewer, and he was really nice and made virology sound exciting. So I'll put him first next time if I get my first choice this rotation :biggrin:

So do you only find out once you're there which one you got, or is it an issue of you struggling to choose between them all at present?
And yeh, I seriously won't go anywhere near stats until I'm forced to, which won't be for another year at least.

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Craghyrax

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Athena

I have to list three choices for my first rotation. I think I'll find out which I get before I get there (to give me a chance to read up!), and if I don't get my first choice this rotation, I think I will on my second or third. Then, I develop a PhD project from whichever rotation I liked best :smile:

That sounds like quite a cool system. And it also sounds like your PhD is guaranteed to be pretty cool :five:

I've just worked out that my supervisor has given me a huge pile of reading completely unrelated to what I want to do, and have figured he probably did so to throw me off of the tracks of the theorist I actually like [and he doesn't] :mad:

This means I have to magic up my own reading and topic entirely alone and that all my reading this summer has been zilch use :bawling:

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fumblewomble

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Craghyrax

I've just worked out that my supervisor has given me a huge pile of reading completely unrelated to what I want to do, and have figured he probably did so to throw me off of the tracks of the theorist I actually like [and he doesn't] :mad:

This means I have to magic up my own reading and topic entirely alone and that all my reading this summer has been zilch use :bawling:

Welcome to research :cool:

Which is the theorist you're interested in and what is the (even very rough) topic? Can you say why you're attracted to the theorist in question? That might be a start.

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Craghyrax

OP

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fumblewomble

Welcome to research :cool:

Yeh I was just thinking 'oh well at least I'll be used to it by the time I reach my Masters :facepalm:

fumblewomble

Which is the theorist you're interested in and what is the (even very rough) topic?

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visesh

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Athena

I only listed three third because it involves lots of stats ( :sick:

), or it would have been one or two. The meningitis project is in there because the guy running the project was my first interviewer, and he was really nice and made virology sound exciting. So I'll put him first next time if I get my first choice this rotation :biggrin:

Hmm, I thought the Neisseria spp. were bacteria :P

Unless of course, the recombination mechanism involves viruses, or I completely misunderstood what you said.

Reply 1328

emilY?

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Sorting. Out. College. Children. Takes. Ages.

Would take less time if I didn't have to keep using the university lookup service for everyone's email... because my nifty automatic lookupish thing on Thunderbird only seems to work about 30% of the time! :/

Living room rug covvvvvered in tiny bits of paper with names on.

Reply 1329

fumblewomble

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Craghyrax

Regrettably I find quite a few aspects of Bourdieu's concepts interesting/worthwhile, so yes I'll happily settle with anything I can turn into a dissertation at this point.

Well in case you're interested, this is what the mml people read when they study Bordieu

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visesh

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emilY?

Sorting. Out. College. Children. Takes. Ages.

Would take less time if I didn't have to keep using the university lookup service for everyone's email... because my nifty automatic lookupish thing on Thunderbird only seems to work about 30% of the time! :/

Living room rug covvvvvered in tiny bits of paper with names on.

AFAIK, the LDAP service only works from within the CUDN.

Reply 1331

emilY?

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visesh

AFAIK, the LDAP service only works from within the CUDN.

That would make sense :rolleyes:

Blergh

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Craghyrax

OP

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fumblewomble

Well in case you're interested, this is what the mml people read when they study Bourdieu:

Thanks

Yep the Calhoun, Harker and Jenkins I read this year as well as covering the Bourdieu texts at the top of that. I'll take note of Shusterman and Robbins. Unfortunately they're likely to just be more critical introductions, as opposed to related social theory tackling the same issues, if that's an undergrad list? Incidentally, did you shove a Habermas reading list into my pigeon hole this year? :p:

Also if thats on an MML reading list, I might be taking a visit to the MML library sometime :closedeyes:

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visesh

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Neisseria spp. are gram negative intracellular diplococci, if that makes any sense to you. I saw some funky Neisseria gonorrhoeae in some neutrophils freshly swabbed in clinic today :cool:

OP

Genetics-wise, not much. But if it's microbiology you're after, let me know. I'm currently doing GUM and infectious disease and am therefore up to my eyeballs in good micro texts.

However, I do have some of my papers from my Part 2 (microbial and parasitic disease + immunology) which were quite geneticsy if you're interested. If you don't have Athens access, again, let me know :flute:

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fumblewomble

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Craghyrax

Incidentally, did you shove a Habermas reading list into my pigeon hole this year? :p:

Er, no. There must be a reading list bunny about :ninja:

Yes, it's an undergraduate MML list and they'd only be studying Bordieu for one supervision. That said, MML have always seemed to put good books on their reading lists.

By the way, in MML this guy http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/staff/pjc21/ has a link with Bourdieu and discussed him in a lecture or 2.

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Craghyrax

OP

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fumblewomble

Er, no. There must be a reading list bunny about :ninja:

fumblewomble

Yes, it's an undergraduate MML list and they'd only be studying Bordieu for one supervision. That said, MML have always seemed to put good books on their reading lists.

By the way, in MML this guy http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/staff/pjc21/ has a link with Bourdieu and discussed him in a lecture or 2.