Apologies for taking so long to write this next blog post. Things have been busy in the lab for me the last few months, but now I'm back to writing my blog and hopefully teaching those who are interested something new on this gloomy, rainy Thursday 😦 So, in my last blog post I introduced [...]
Not a bad office view this Friday! 🥰
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This Friday I am very grateful for this view and the fact that it is the weekend.🤗
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Why? Because I am absolutely exhausted 😴. For the first time in the 5 months I've been in my job (omg 😱 how has it been 5 months!) I feel like the commuting and all that comes with it has drained me.
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So here's to a lazy chilled out weekend of doing things I love 😍 rather than things I need. So I might exactly write some blog posts! 💻
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Have a great weekend all and I'll catch up with you all on Monday! 👋🏻
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What are your weekend plans? Chilled? Or lots going on? 😚
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|| Image: selfie of Soph looking down on London in the background ||
Does anyone else get excited by board games?? 🤗🤗
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I love a good board game♟🎲, so you can imagine how excited 🤗 I was to find this one from @gotgeniusgames that combines my love for cell biology too! 🧬🔬
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I am very excited to get this open and try it out! Why cant it be the weekend already?.... wait! Does that make me old now? 🙈😂
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What are your favourite board games to play? 💕💕
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|| Image: Soph holding box containing Cytosis board game in front of her ||
HOW DID I GET INTO SCIENCE COMMUNICATION? 🔬🗣
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I've spent years training to become a scientist 👩🔬. All those years of school, 4 years of undergrad and 4 years of a PhD, all to end up not in the lab doing research 🔬, but as a science communicator instead 🙈. Something that in comparison I've only been doing for less than three years!
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I often get messages ✉ about how I got my job and the ins and outs of it, so I thought I would start sharing the transition from PhD to scicommer 🗣
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But first I want to take it way back to the beginning. How did I get started in scicomm?
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It was in fact doing something I didnt want to do - the 3 Minute Thesis competition. One slide to explain your research in, you've guessed it, three minutes ⏱
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I thought it was going to be a complete waste of my time & I should have been in the lab. But as soon as I started getting creative 🎨 coming up with analogies and funny quips to add into my talk, I was hooked on scicomm.
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To top it all off, the audience actually laughed at my jokes😂 and I won the audience prize 🏆 Not bad for someone who didnt want to do it eh?
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But that was my very first step on this scicomm journey of mine! The moral of this story is to give everything a go once, even if you're not sure about it, because you never know where it might lead!🤗
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How did you first get into scicomm? Maybe you have a question about my 3MT or research? More info about my transition from PhD student to scicommer coming soon :)
I forgot to take a selfie again 🙈
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BUT I wanted to talk about some of the good things that come out of social media. 📱
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I've spent the evening having dinner with these three beautiful, intelligent and inspiring women👩🔬. And I cannot tell you how happy I am that I not only got to meet them through IG but also in real life! Following their journeys is so inspiring and motivating 💕💕 for me, so I can only imagine what the future scientists of the world see.
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The sense of community I feel through scicomm insta has got me through my PhD 🎓 and I am truly thankful. Make sure you are following all the accounts tagged - especially my ladies Nina, Julia and Loz! 🥰🥰 trust me you wont be disappointed!!
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Let's spread a little happiness on this gloomy Tuesday and tag a friend that you are so glad you met them through social media or in real life! Let them know how much you care 💕💕
WHAT IS YOUR DREAM HOLIDAY DESTINATION? ✈
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A lot of us have aspirations of travelling to the far corners of the globe... me included! I've always had places like New Zealand, Fiji, Peru, Canada & Japan on my bucket list. In fact, my next trip will be my honeymoon 👰🏽 to a surprise location.
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But soon there will be another out of this world place rocketing up 🚀 people's bucket lists. Where is going to be the next hottest destination? Space! 🌌
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It was announced this week that NASA are going to be opening up the International Space Station 🛰 to tourists from 2020!
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BUT rather than a few nights gazing up at the stars, a few nights looking down on our Blue Planet 🌍 will set you back £27,500 per night! That's $35,000! 💲💲💲
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Okayyyy... so it was never going to be that easy! Besides the nightly cost, there will only be two trips per year, you have to pass all astronaut 👨🚀👩🏿🚀 medical and training requirements and there is the small issue of a $60million 'taxi fare'.
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So it is unlikely that you and me are going to be heading to the ISS anytime soon! 😪 But this is pretty big news for the next step in space tourism🚀! First the ISS, next the Moon and Mars, then who knows!
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Would you want to visit the International Space Station?🛰 What would be the one thing you would want to do when you arrive?
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|| Image: UK passport with necklace showing all the planets in our solar system ||
Surprise hen party #2 💃🏻👰🏽🐥
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Headed to London to catch up with some uni friends to find they had organised a surprise mini hen do for me 🥰
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I think its finally starting to sink in that I'm getting married 👰🏽 in less than 4 months 🙈! Feels amazing to see friends getting excited to be there too!
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Spoiler alert - there may be a little but more wedding spam and personal stuff on her for a little while whilst I plan this next chapter of my life but also experiment with my content too! 🥰
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So if there is something you would like to see more of from me then please let me know. But more science & scicomm 🔬 coming your way soon! Plus more insights into my job!
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How was your weekend? What did you guys and gal get up to?
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