
No matter how committed you are, sometimes the best thing to do is to walk away.
Continue readingI might be leaving academia, but I’ve no regrets about staying as long as I did.
Continue readingSo, 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 readingA 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 readingDid you really “fail” if you didn’t get something that doesn’t exist, or isn’t what you really wanted?
Continue readingScientists like to think of themselves as tough…but is it emotional toughness rather than mental toughness that’s being selected for?
Continue readingWe all love science, but what kind of Science Lover are we? Continue reading
What makes dealing with peer review so difficult is that it forces us to confront the worst conception of ourselves. Continue reading
A small linguistic adjustment could make a big difference to how we view academic performance. Continue reading
The capacity to forget past trauma can be an impediment to productive change. Continue reading