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The 44th annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing concluded on June 3, 2022, in Chicago, USA. This article talks about some of the key topics the event…
This year was especially hard for me, because it was my first International Women’s Day since I left physics. The hashtag #PassOnMyWisdom has been bouncing around…
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  • June 28, 2019
Last week, I participated in the Ecology Across Borders conference, where I was uber excited to do my first real conference talk! When I spied an opportunity to come to…
When I am feeling my most discouraged and whipped by this PhD I tend to start listing mentally, everything that has happened in my life over the past 2.5 years that have…
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  • July 8, 2019
In a recent study published in Nature, researchers caution that over the next 50 years, climate and land use change will lead to new encounters between mammals,…
A year ago, I thought I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I had it all planned out. For years I knew what I wanted was to get my PhD, become a professor of…
I created the @ProfessorJaded account for a series of different reasons. But initially, it primarily served as role-play for a fictional character. I considered writing…
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  • October 29, 2018
Dr. Anna Boegehold, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, she shares her story about some unique challenges in academia she has faced…
Before I began my postgraduate journey, I thought that pursuing a PhD was all about getting equipped with the skills I needed to do a job or more specifically to be a…
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  • June 12, 2019
In the South African township where I grew up, we have a special meal on Sundays called “Seven Colours.” It consists of a mishmash of foods and beautiful colors on your…
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  • June 13, 2019