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Mentoring is something everyone has to do in academia and the truth of the matter is that not everyone is a good advisor. The supervisor-student relationship is a…
We talk a great deal about mental stress, and even the emotional toll that a PhD process can take on students, but I have not yet seen very much written about the…
- Sherran Clarence
- April 26, 2019
Who knew that being on a huge stage talking about bird sperm could be so much fun? All summer I’ve been working on my presentation and it’s been one of things that I’ve…
- Dr Hanna Nyborg Støstad
- April 26, 2019
After 10 months of tingly arms and legs, a bout of optic neuritis, unexplained tiredness and brain fogs, as well as doubting my own sanity—I was finally diagnosed with…
- Stephanie Zihms
- June 28, 2019
I’ll be leaving university with a PhD by December, and right now I feel like a falling cat. I’m hurtling towards the defense date trying to reconfigure myself in mid-air…
- Claire Jarvis
- May 21, 2019
I have multiple sclerosis, as a result of which I’m constantly in pain and experience deep fatigue. People in my life have told me to forget my PhD, to change careers,…
One of the things I like about what I do is the strangeness of my everyday situations. There’s more of the boring old ‘sitting at a computer’ situation than I would like…
- Katie LaBarbera
- May 6, 2019
I am a bit of a black sheep in the workplace. Since I am the only one with small kids, I cannot go out for drinks or go to nightclubs after work. And because of this,…
To explain the connection between travelling and science, I’d like to remind you that scientists are in fact real live human beings, not cyborgs who survive only off…
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