In the run-up to my decision to leave academia, I had one huge asset: my wife’s career.
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Author: Brooke Morriswood
Follow the money
I’m less than a year into my new scientific career in the private sector, and the biggest difference with academia is already clear: it’s the money.
But not, as you might think, in terms of salary…
Continue readingFrom the top down
You wouldn’t think that mandatory training on company fine print could come across as a beacon of enlightenment, but that’s how it did for me.
Continue readingApotheosis (a riff on permanent positions in science)
It’s taken the private sector only six months to give me something that 20+ years in academia didn’t provide: a permanent position.
Continue readingIn and out of love (with academia)
Only in the abstract
I do miss academia, but only in the abstract.
Continue reading2023: TIR’s year in review
Great scientists, great moustaches VII (a Movember posting)
The latest in TIR’s annual celebration of some great minds and the great moustaches that went (just) before them. Links to instalments I-VI can be found at the end for real moustache aficionados.
Continue readingScientific supply chains
Attracting international scientists should be used to complement a domestic science base, not compensate for its deficiencies.
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Total Internal Reflection 