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 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....
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...
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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