Judging how much control to exert over a research project is one of mentoring’s trickiest balancing acts. Continue reading
Leaders and directors
Mentoring, teaching
Long-distance learning
Freddie Mercury, J K Rowling, and the scientific primary literature. Continue reading
The selfish case for teaching
Scientists have more to gain from teaching than they often realise. Continue reading
Stop the ventriloquists!
Students need to learn how to answer questions. Not letting them do so is a failure of mentorship. Continue reading
A chip off the old block
Supervisors don’t just train you in techniques, to a degree they impart their ideology as well. Continue reading
Where have all the pranksters gone?
Is science losing its playfulness? Continue reading
Don’t teach facts!
Cultivating the right mindset is more important than cramming mnemonics. Continue reading
Vicious circles and poison pens
We don’t train young scientists how to review papers. Continue reading
Dumping and delegating
Shaping the mould
Students and postdocs cannot simply be clones of their mentor. Continue reading
Total Internal Reflection 