Unemployed Edinburgh graduate looking for something interesting in the UK.

[abiologystudent]

Hello folks,

I'm an Edinburgh Biotech graduate with a 2:1 looking for something interesting to do in the UK. If anyone would like a month's free labour (or, madness, even like to pay me) to do/research/organise/badly-code something that's an interesting thing, then i'd be delighted to help. I may even travel if it's interesting enough and someone has a floor.

Skills and experience:

- A variety of lab skills
- Some basic coding skills (slowly progressing), adept with computers, linux.
- Significant amounts of experience researching Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases and Zinc Fingers (my honours project).
- Has previously built own DIY centrifuge
- Widely interested in commercial biotech, open-source things, patents and law.

Also, had anyone been reading the transhumanist stuff on wired this week? It's excellent fun.

http://www.iamdann.com/2012/03/21/my-magnet-implant-body-modification

http://vimeo.com/23836862

T

[Nathan McCorkle]

What's a 2:1?

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[Dave Butler]

What's a 2:1?

Pretty good.

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[Cathal Garvey]

It's a University grade in EU format, meaning "Second class honours,
grade one.". Over here, you're considered to have gotten a "perfect
score" if you score higher than 70% (stupid, right?), which is very
rare, and is termed a 1:1. The 10% band below that is 2:1, below that is
2:2, and below that is 3.

There's actually a translation scale used when applying for postgraduate
programs in the US because our scores appear superficially to be so
terribly low, when in fact it's just a nonsense transposition of 90%
down to 70%. So 65% is considered a very good grade over here.

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[abiologystudent]

Apologies if i sent that just to you Nathan, it was suppose to go here... ->

I think in my class of 22 or so there were three firsts, 15 or so 2:1's and three or four 2:2s. In the wikipedian/internet cockney rhyming british degree classification system, the progression goes Damien Hirst, Attila the Hun, Desmond Tutu, Thora Hird. I hope this helps.