We sleekit, cow'rin, and tim'rous beasties

Post-docs, academics, students and anyone who has ever had to speak in public should read this great piece by Rachel Brem or perhaps not because the identification factor is so very high that you may find yourself collapsing against the desk in hypoglycemic horror or longing for a hotel breakfast. And you don't have to know a thing about mouse genetics in order to appreciate it.

If you like mouse genetics though, you may well be interested in this update on the ongoing intellectual property imbrolgio over the transgenic mouse. This would be a perfect place to discuss the pros and cons of intellectual property if only I understood them. But I don't. Alex Tabarrok does however, so perhaps you should go see what he has to say on the topic.