Science life and careers

I have a few posts (half-)written that will never see the light of day, because I don’t like being controversial, or open myself up too much on a site with …

I’m sitting cross-legged on my chair at my desk. Partly because it’s comfortable, partly because the cat just sailed across the living room on a rug and landed right at …

Prologue: I have been working on this blog post about failure for months and kept cutting bits out of it because it was so long and boring. This is actually …

I’ve always felt that I wasn’t creative enough in the lab. If protocols say to add 24 ul and wait 5 minutes, I will do just that. Sometimes I’m lazy …

I’m still incapable of writing anything longer than this, but here are 1000 words, in picture form, from Tuesday, when I successfully defended my PhD thesis. Yay! I’m really tired …

How does one prepare for a PhD defense? I really don’t know, but I’m pretty sure these things are wrong: 1. Using pile of papers as a little side table …