Welcome to the UK-Skeptics' forum.

[Muse]

Hi Kat and welcome. It's great to have you on board. :)

Catch you later :D

[doubting thomas]

I'd like to say that one of the reasons I am a lurker at the JREF is that I'm not a scientist and I have no expertise in any particular topic.

Due to the forum there being so large, I'm always hesitant to chime in with my take on something, because there's always someone more knowledgeable than me, and I tend to be shy.

I'm hoping to dip my toe in a tad here, if that's ok.
:)

welcome Kat. I must admit i'm a little shy myself and not a scientist but i do shove my oar in occasionally and this forum can be quite addictive.

[Raphael]

Greetings All! My first post, and I'm still finding my way around here. I recognize a few names. Ooooh, I just saw all these tags...I'll have to see what they do.

Raphael

[Blue Bubble]

Hello there. I love the skellington.
:)
And I'll try my best to meet expectations.

Welcome Kat. "Skellington" ? Sounds like you're from Embra (that's where I'm from originally).

[Nettles]

That or a Tim Burton fan.

[Admin]

Greetings All! My first post, and I'm still finding my way around here. I recognize a few names. Ooooh, I just saw all these tags...I'll have to see what they do.

Raphael

Hi there, and welcome.

Another JREF member? ???

[Kat]

*coughs*

Blue Bubble? Nettles?

Both. Plus a Pratchett fan.
:)

And hello there, Raphael.

[huw-l]

Hi Guys,

better introduce myself. I'm a former molecular biologist (I jacked in my PhD to go and work in the film industry) now pretending to be a computer scientist at the university in Cardiff. At my previous place of work I was always the guy who would reply to the dear-all email warning about glutamate (or whatever the scare of the week was) with the relevant link snopes.com . After four years of that I wasn't the only one who would shoot down things like that so I must have had a little bit of an effect.

Anyway it's really nice to have a skeptical hang-out in the UK. It'll give me another excuse not to do any work.

Cheers,
Huw

[vbloke]

Hello and welcome on board

*kills self for punnage*

[tkingdoll]

Hi Guys,

better introduce myself. I'm a former molecular biologist (I jacked in my PhD to go and work in the film industry) now pretending to be a computer scientist at the university in Cardiff. At my previous place of work I was always the guy who would reply to the dear-all email warning about glutamate (or whatever the scare of the week was) with the relevant link snopes.com . After four years of that I wasn't the only one who would shoot down things like that so I must have had a little bit of an effect.

Anyway it's really nice to have a skeptical hang-out in the UK. It'll give me another excuse not to do any work.

Cheers,
Huw

Welcome! There's a skeptic's day out in Birmingham on 17th June if you can make it, it's a little nearer Cardiff than the usual London events.

[Jocky]

Hi Huw and welcome :)

Look forward to hearing from you hereabouts

Jocky

[Blue Bubble]

Hi Guys,

better introduce myself. I'm a former molecular biologist (I jacked in my PhD to go and work in the film industry) now pretending to be a computer scientist at the university in Cardiff.

Cheers,
Huw

Welcome, Huw.

Molecular biologist , eh ? Whereabouts ? (I spent 14 years working at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory - 12 years in Heidelberg, 2 years at the Genome Campus in Hinxton, near Cambridge - just a mile up the road from where I now live). My background is comp science, not molecular biology.

And I worked at the University of Cardiff for a short while in the mid-1970's. We had to schedule a 4 Mbyte exchangeable disk drive to be mounted for an hour at a time. Those were the days - ICL System 4's running Multijob (which we termed Multiflop). Ask around if anyone still remembers them. Later replace by Multics (woohooo!!!)

[huw-l]

MRC Clinical Sciences Centre at Hammersmith Hospital in London's charming East Acton (right next-door to HMP Wormwood Scrubs).

Fortunately the computer systems have moved on somewhat since the 1970s :)

[Nettles]

Welcome to our hangout, Huw!

[righter]

hi everyone,
i am from the land of Thule otherwise known as shetland. also a lurker on JREF...occasional poster,but usually get ignored...not clever enough !!
so hopefully can contribute here...to avoid work as well ! :) :)