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Time management tips for PhD students

"Tempus Fugit, Time Matters" Every time I meet PhD students at the beginning of their career, I’m always asking them: Are you seriously taking into...

Advice on Standing Out as a Speaker

Many people find it difficult to speak in front of groups, whether that be their peers or a group of strangers. But every fantastic...

My Science Habit: hooked on the rush of an experiment finally coming together

by Rosanna Jackson It hasn’t worked. A sinking in your stomach confirms just how disappointed you are. Just how much you wanted this experiment to work....
Life or Sci Bethan Rogoyski

“Life of Sci”

by Bethan Rogoyski The book Life of Pi describes the odyssey of a young man and his tiger trying to get home after capsizing at sea....
5-minute incubations

10 ways to keep busy during 5-minute incubations

by Cora Olpe Today I would like to discuss one of the wet lab scientist’s biggest mental challenges: The 5-minute incubation. Often encountered during immunohistochemistry or...

How To Be PhD-Productive When You’re Just Not Feeling It

by Nicola Faramarzi We all have those days during a PhD where getting into the lab is a major struggle. Life as a cancer researcher...

Top 10 PhD survival tips from current students

by Sophie Roper There is no doubt about it, #PhDLife really is a rollercoaster. It is full of highs and lows, twists and turns, and...
Samantha Terry

Life in the Lab – Life IS the Lab

by Samantha Terry I am a new-ish lecturer with a small group of just one postdoc. Together we’re studying the use of radioactivity to image and...

The Fifth Season: Grant Season

by Caroline Himbert It is that time of year again: the line in front of the research center’s coffee shop seems to be way too long...

The elephant in the lab: Impostor Phenomenon

by Tamara Sutus Temovski Impostor phenomenon (IP), impostor syndrome or fraud syndrome is a term coined in 1978 by clinical psychologists Dr. Pauline R. Clance...

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