{"id":184,"date":"2005-10-11T07:20:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T07:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=184"},"modified":"2005-10-11T07:20:27","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T07:20:27","slug":"rodents-and-post-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/10\/11\/rodents-and-post-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodents and Post-Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know&#8230; while it&#8217;s commonly thought that scientists have something against furry little animals, I just realized today that most of my friends in lab are actually rodent pet owners. Among my classmates and labmates, we&#8217;ve got a guinea pig, a chinchilla, a rabbit, and of course, our amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/p_rats.php\">super-rats<\/a>! My theory is that working with rodents each day actually help us labrats (pun intended) appreciate them much more than the average Joe. Anyway, this past weekend&#8217;s been one of those random-run-in-with-Asian-postdoc-in-Asian-restaurant weekends. We ran into a Korean post-doc from Melody&#8217;s lab at a <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.citysearch.com\/profile\/39043348\/allston_ma\/buk_kyung_ii.html\">Korean restaurant<\/a>, and a Japanese post-doc at, of course, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minado.com\/\">Japanese restaurant<\/a>. Amazing, huh? By the way, there is a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/news\/20051007\/01\">press release<\/a> about our recent article in Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know&#8230; while it&#8217;s commonly thought that scientists have something against furry little animals, I just realized today that most of my friends in lab are actually rodent pet owners. Among my classmates and labmates, we&#8217;ve got a guinea pig, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/10\/11\/rodents-and-post-docs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}