Here’s the latest instalment in TIR’s longest-running posting series, the definitive guide to scientist moustaches! A Movember-themed celebration of some great minds and the great moustaches that went (just) before them. Links to parts I-VIII in the series can be found at the end of the posting.
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I’m a white, cisgendered, heterosexual male. I was born in an affluent Western country and lucky enough to get an elite education. I have all the attendant privileges and instinctive reassurance that comes from those accidents of birth and genetics, but in one quite profound respect I’m minoritised: I have spent 19 years – more than two-thirds of my adult life – as an immigrant.
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One of the hardest things with active parenting is that you’re usually robbed of the hours when you’re at your most alert and creative.
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Did you know that there are actually guidelines for determining authorship on scientific papers?
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Group leaders nowadays bear a huge individual responsibility for raising money. But what if it was departments, and not group leaders, that were the unit of selection?
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There’s a reason why the chainsaw is such an apt symbol for the current assault on American science: because you can cut a tree down in minutes, but growing it back takes decades.
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Medical Communications (MedComms) might just be the best industry career option out there for scientists who most enjoy the writing/communicating/organising parts of the job, and on 22nd November 2024 the EMBL Fellows’ Careers Service hosted a webinar about it. The panel members were:
Total Internal Reflection 