Why I chose Pages for writing meeting minutes

First of all I personally have a Mac, iPad, and iPhone. And at work I am forced to use a PC with MS Office package. I work in science and we have quite a lot of meetings and I would like to use my iPad to write short minutes of them. I want to read those [...]

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iA Writer for Mac

Above is a screenshot from Pages word processor and I am very pleased that the formatting done in iA Writer is there. Fantastic. I think iA Writer will be nice for outlining research articles and ideas. It is fast and simple. Without any clutter. Check out more from iA Writer web site.

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Hopeless with all those papers

Hopeless with all those papers, originally uploaded by Jonne Naarala. Part of my work desk in the background. I have huge piles of papers and I just wonder how tall they will be after 10 or 20 years. That’s a bad habit to collect so much paper but I do not feel home in paperless [...]

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Great place for a presentation

Main entrance, originally uploaded by Jonne Naarala. Säätytalo, The House of the Estates, Helsinki. I was giving a scientific presentation about effects of magnetic fields on oxidative stress there. You can find more info about Säätytalo here.

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First Open Access paper from our research group

Our Open Access paper titled “Pre-exposure to 50 Hz magnetic fields modifies menadione-induced genotoxic effects in human SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells” was published in PLoS ONE journal yesterday. I am so happy that we started a new era in our publishing strategy to choose an Open Access forum for our paper. Open Access (OA) is the present day and [...]

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Future cell biologist?

Future cell biologist?, originally uploaded by Jonne Naarala. We did quite a lot microscoping with Kaapo at the weekend. It is so nice to see how passionate children can be when discovering new things. We were studying plant leaves, algae, yeast cells, blood, hair, and water samples. I was so delighted as a cell biologist [...]

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Some work-related stuff

Sometimes it is so nice to have a camera with you at your workplace and document the things you do professionally. Yesterday I did that and I think I should do that more regularly. Co-60 source accelerator in Kuopio University hospital. We expose C3H10T1/2 murine fibroblasts to ionizing radiation (1 and 5 Gy doses). We [...]

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Freezing fog

It was a stunning sight last afternoon when freezing fog was emerging during a rapid temperature drop from -2 C to -10 C. These kind of phenomena are quite interesting ones. You can read more about fog classification here. The below photo was shot just few moments before the sunset. The sun was setting down behind my [...]

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About the blog name

Hi! This is my new weblog. Welcome. You may wonder its name. It is quite simple though. I am an adjunct professor in environmental cell biology so “scientific”. Family is my life so “family”. Photography is my main hobby so “photographer”. I hope you will enjoy my weblog.

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