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It all started back in October at a big conference I attended. I felt out of place: like a fraud who didn’t belong. While I may have graduated college, received a Master…
I dropped out of my first PhD and, after a short break, enrolled for a PhD in malaria vector control. This was a really tough phase when I had to deal with a lot of…
- Elodie Ekoka
- October 29, 2018
Once you’ve done something that’s got you results, writing the analysis should be easy, right? After all, it’s you who has done the work, you know why you did it, you…
- Shruti Turner
- May 21, 2019
I cannot compare my path with somebody who didn’t go through the same steps, because it would only lead me to self-pity and depression. I cannot despise my path either,…
- Elodie Ekoka
- October 29, 2018
How does one know if they have work-life balance? Is there a formula, an ideal? Has anyone calculated the optimal percent of time and energy that should be spent and…
- Lauren Bonefont
- May 3, 2019
This isn’t a story about careers and families and whether it’s possible to have both. This is about careers and other careers and having both. A while ago, a friend of…
While most of my job involves sitting at a desk, I am fortunate that for three months a year I live in a tent, explore remote places, and dig fossil bones out of the…
I am outing myself as a disabled scientist. I have a hidden disability and this gives me the luxury of being selective in letting people know about my disability. I was…
- Allison McDonald
- May 6, 2019
On October 2, 2014, after a 10-hour flight, I landed in the UK for the first time in my life. After another four hours of travelling, I finally reached my room in…
I was so terrified of speaking at a conference that I purposely submitted my poster abstract after the given deadline, Despite this, my abstract was chosen. I cried when…