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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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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  • June 12, 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,…
  • Guest Author
  • April 25, 2019
One research group from the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA – decided to analyze the use of these reports within and outside the…
The existing method for adding metals to organic materials is dangerous and laborious. Scientists from Korea have now developed a new method that is simple, safe, and…
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…
  • Guest Author
  • June 20, 2019
This is a first-person account of a transgender grad student’s feelings of isolation, which eventually led them to move out of academia.