This isn’t a post about careers and families and whether it’s possible to have both. This is a post about careers and other careers and having both. A while ago, a friend of Read More
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Pulvis et raginae (The Dust Queen) is a subspecies of Loessulum Fanaticus, The European Loess Enthusiast. Most of you, however, may be more familiar with the common name – The Kaja Fenn. The Kaja is not Read More
In November 2018, Chinese researcher Jiankui He’s announced the birth of the world’s first genetically edited babies using the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing tool. This announcement was followed by an outcry from Chinese as well Read More
What has your experience been so far with making friends? Are they mostly within your cohort, or do you socialize with people from all stages of the program? Do you have friends outside of your Read More
I went to the first meeting of my graduate student support group yesterday. It’s a themed support group by the University Health Services that is moderated by a psychologist and offers a place for Read More
What’s your work schedule like? Are you one of the first people in lab, or one of the last to leave? Maybe you’re just somewhere comfortably in the middle. Lately I’ve been Read More
On the 2nd of October, 2014, after a 10-hour flight, I landed in the UK for the first time in my life. Carrying my 4-kg rice cooker, I painstakingly searched for the exit in the maze-like Read More
Thousands of researchers, teachers, and students in Brazil rallied on Wednesday, May 15, 2019, to protest the freezing of research and educational funding. The nationwide demonstrations, which were organized by labor unions to protest the Brazilian President’Read More
Unlike many people who know their future careers by the time they complete their matric year (or even before), I was unfortunately not one of those people. There are many of us out there who Read More
A lot of the time, I get the “I don’t know how you do it all” comment from people. And the truth is, I really don’t either, but I’ll give you a Read More
