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This is a first-person account of a transgender grad student’s feelings of isolation, which eventually led them to move out of academia.
- Editage Insights
- May 16, 2023
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
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…
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
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
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…
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
T-test is a simple yet powerful tool that helps you compare the means of two groups, making it a fundamental test in biomedical research. This post covers some key…
- Marisha Fonseca
- August 28, 2023