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The discovery of microscopic plastic fragments within sediments, water bodies, and even within human and animal organs has attracted much attention in non-scientific…
- David Burbridge
- June 14, 2022
In winter 2015, I broke out in hives. When I went to the university health center, they asked me about any lifestyle changes that could have triggered my full-on…
- Claire Jarvis
- May 31, 2019
It took quite some time for me to get used to my role as a mother and then merge my scientist/professional-me with my mother-me. So, this made it kind of uncomfortable…
Anxiety ebbs and flows. One week you can feel super chilled, and the next, you suddenly start feeling on edge all of the time. This week, I am on the edge.
- Erica Hawkins
- May 9, 2019
If I could distil 4.5 years of a PhD into a 4.5 minute song, it would be a tune I half-heard one morning at the gym. I hadn’t heard it before, and I was sufficiently…
- Claire Jarvis
- May 31, 2019
Being pregnant and having a cold at the same time made it very obvious how little attention I used to pay to my health during graduate school. Like me, I understand that…
Few academics realize how much of their time is claimed by writing and yet, they would rather do anything else other than write. If that sounds like you, here are some…
- Yateendra Joshi
- August 30, 2022
Acyl fluorides have recently gained much attention in transition-metal catalysis due to their stability and selective reactivity. However, their commercial production…
- Impact Science
- April 23, 2020
I was supposed to give a talk at a seminar, but I’d decided that I couldn’t because of my speaking-anxiety. I could either convince my advisor to excuse me from the talk…
I’m in graduate school, and I often struggle with feeling like an impostor. When I get caught up in these low moments of being especially hard on myself and worrying…