29 de outubro de 2009

Vou ter um workshop com esta pessoa:


"Polly Matzinger took to science from an unusual background career path which included stints as a Playboy Bunny at a Playboy Club in Denver, a bar waitress, a jazz musician, a carpenter and dog trainer. In 1974 Polly Matzinger had dropped in and out of college for years and worked at various jobs before ending up waitressing at a bar frequented by faculty from the University of California, at Davis and here she met Professor Robert Schwab, the head of the University's wildlife program who noticed her talent and persuaded her to take to science."

"In one of her first publications, she appeared to have a dog as a coauthor for a paper for the Journal of Experimental Medicine. As Ted Anton described the decision in his book Bold Science, "Refusing to write in the usual scientific passive voice ('steps were taken') and too insecure to write in the first person ('I took the steps'), she instead invented [a] coauthor": her Afghan Hound, Galadriel Mirkwood. Once discovered, papers on which she was a major author were then barred from the journal until the editor died and was replaced by another."

Acho que a melhor expressão para descrever o que sinto é mais ou menos esta: woohooo!


4 comentários:

  1. Uma coisa é certa: de chato esse workshop não deve ter nada. Tenho imensa admiração por pessoas com percursos tão erráticos como essa senhora - pessoas brilhantes mas com dúvidas quanto ao que fazer com a sua vida. Torna-as muito humanas, apesar da excelência. Aproveita, deve valer mesmo a pena.

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  2. Senti inveja, acredita!

    Belo blog, sim senhora:)

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  3. Primocas:

    Claro que não ficamos atrás em tudo - repara no trabalho científico (e no reconhecimento do mesmo pela EMBO) efectuado pela Mónica Bettencourt Dias.

    Parte do workshop será com o cão, LOLOL!

    Beijinhos com Docking...

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