When I say the word ‘scientist’ what comes to mind? Most likely a lab coat and research right? This is what I thought too as I was growing up, which looking back now was very naïve – but how can you aspire to be something that you don’t see? I will be the first one [...]
Time really is flying this year. Can you believe that I've been in my new job three months already? Because I can't. The first month was a whirlwind of information, the next gave me glimpses of the variety of things I can learn about in this role and that has only continued in my third [...]
As a researcher, to learn more about a new field or to delve deeper into possible explanations for your lab results or research question, you would probably spend a lot of time reading and searching through research publications right? The aim being to expand your knowledge and learn from what others have done before you. [...]
2019 has been the year where I have left my student status behind and jumped head first into the real world and attempts to actually adult - starting with getting myself my first proper full time job as a science communications officer. I am a few months into my role now and think I am [...]
If you didn't know already, 2019 was the year that I officially was no longer a student anymore - yes, I am still a little bit upset about that - and embarked on my first steps into the real world starting in my new job as a science communications officer. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsydBcOBxjC/ I seriously cannot believe [...]
I am a firm believer that everyone is born a scientist. Why? Because as a baby, toddler and child we are always curious. Whether that is trying to put our toes in our mouth, crawling around to explore with our new found mobility or asking ‘why’ a million and one times to our parents in [...]
August already?! How? Just how!? But that means I have been out of the lab and writing full time for 4 weeks already, but it also means that I am handing in my PhD thesis next month! Okay - I hadn't thought about it like that until I just typed that and now I'm stressing [...]
I've said it before and I will definitely say it again. 'Being a scientist is not just one thing' . Deciding what to do next after the PhD is something that is stressing me a little because, well, I don't know what I want to do. Over the last year or so as I've started [...]
Happy New Year science lovers! *** New Year, time for a New You, right? As we ring in the new year, a lot of us make New Years Resolutions to try and better ourselves over the next 365 days. But most of those are long forgotten memories or thrown away ideas by the time January [...]
It's a brand new month and after a short hiatus it's time for a return of one of my favourite features on the blog - Scientist in the Spotlight! After the success of Spotlight September, I received loads of messages with requests for new perspectives on this feature and suggestions for role models that YOU [...]
