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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
The need to first zero in on a blood group can delay blood transfusions in emergency situations, and this in turn can prove fatal. Thus, to speed up the process, a team…
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
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…
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