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By my colleague’s measure, I may have committed career suicide multiple times. Right now, at this moment in time, I feel both confident and challenged by my career for a…
Here are some truly simple tips that might help you to obtain and analyze your spectra effectively.
This article discusses the devices—headings and subheadings, typical connecting words, phrases, and punctuation marks—that show how sentences and paragraphs form a…
This article discusses how to intelligently use datasets, software, hardware, publications, and  educational resources to improve the open science ecosystem.
I’m a first year post-doc in the Brown lab, and first-time mum of a one-and-a-half-year-old, soon to be second-time mum. While it was relatively easy to pull off my…
  • Guest Author
  • June 4, 2019
When I started graduate school, the Director of Graduate Studies explained to me and my fellow first-years that the key determinant of PhD success is not brain power but…
Lately, I've been captured by the idea of putting the philosophy back into a PhD. I was doing data exploration for my work and just hit a wall. I could not move forward…
  • Guest Author
  • May 28, 2019
Spintronic devices, which use electron spin to process data, are emerging at the forefront of semiconductor applications. Staying a step ahead, scientists from Korea…
Collaborating is not always easy – people have different styles, habits, and preferences for just about every stage of a project, from brainstorming ideas to writing up…
When I first starting blogging, I wrote a post about why I chose to start a PhD. I wrote this post when I was 6 months into my PhD and in the proposal stage of my…