Science life and careers

My department is celebrating its 100th birthday with a symposium this week. One of the highlights of today’s talks was this snippet on lab safety from Marian Packham, who was …

Our department makes all graduate students give seminars for the whole department. Masters students give one 30 minute talk, PhD students give two 30-minute talks and a one hour one. …

I took a fantastic course this semester: Teaching in Higher Education (THE500).  It’s a balloted non-credit course for final year PhD students, and it used to show up on your …

If everything goes well (fingers crossed, knock on wood, and other unscientific anti-jinx methods) this is my last semester in the lab. I plan to write over the summer, and …

In 1875 Lewis Carroll wrote “Some Popular Fallacies About Vivisection” for the publication Fortnightly Review. Carroll was strongly opposed to vivisection, but I think that if he were alive today, …

Last Friday, while talking with a group of both lab- and non-lab friends, we addressed and explained the biggest frustration of labwork: spending two weeks working all the time (meaning: …