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I have been thinking recently about my PhD journey. While it may seem that my journey was a bright and shiny thing, this is not completely so. Towards the end of 2010, I…
Host cells infected with giant viruses behave in a unique manner. To gain deeper insight into the infection mechanism of giant viruses, scientists at Tokyo University of…
Have you ever wondered whether collecting data at multiple time points from the same set of subjects could introduce some bias into your results? Well, repeated measures…
The quantum spin liquid (QSL) state is an exotic state of matter where the spin of electrons, which generally exhibits order at low temperatures, remains disordered. Now…
Out of a sense of mutiny about the world around me, I decided to fail the final exams of my Bachelors’ degree. It was my way of rejecting the life imagined for me by…
When I accepted my first academic job as an assistant professor of criminology, I packed up my home and left my friends and family to begin a new chapter of my life 250…
This morning I realized I still feel envious of people in academia. So, I started writing about this feeling and whether it meant I had made the wrong decision by moving…
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  • June 12, 2019
The White House has unveiled a joint committee to tackle obstacles faced by the American research enterprise. Leaders from several federal agencies will work together to…
Academic lemons i.e., deadlines, projects etc. will always grow. And they will eventually need to be dealt with. But there is really ever only one you, so it’s best to…
It is critical that individuals in the scientific or academic fields understand the distinction between a graphical abstract and an infographic, as they do not serve the…