Why is it that I still feel so much guilt about leaving academia?
Continue readingLife at the bench
In and out of love (with academia)
Only in the abstract
I do miss academia, but only in the abstract.
Continue readingA new direction (the switch to MedComms)
Walk away
No regrets (a salute to all my students)
I might be leaving academia, but I’ve no regrets about staying as long as I did.
Continue readingChanging Lanes
So, now it’s public – in January I wrote to my head of department to say I was resigning from all positions I hold at the University of Würzburg – group leader in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, manager of the Germany-wide research focus network on “Physics of Parasitism”, and designated successor as student coordinator for the Faculty of Biology.
I’m leaving academia.
Continue readingThe 9 types of Horror Lab
A special Hallowe’en posting. Horror movies and PhD/postdoc projects sometimes unfortunately have a lot in common, with naive and idealistic young things being gobbled up by a gallery of nasties. But what exactly are the 9 types of horror lab?
Continue readingWas it really what you wanted? // A change is coming
Did you really “fail” if you didn’t get something that doesn’t exist, or isn’t what you really wanted?
Continue readingWho’s the toughest?
Scientists like to think of themselves as tough…but is it emotional toughness rather than mental toughness that’s being selected for?
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Total Internal Reflection 