Did you know that there are actually guidelines for determining authorship on scientific papers?
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The unit of selection
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?
Continue readingDeprogramming academia
Look after one another
Chainsaw massacre
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.
Continue readingThe magic of MedComms: an EMBL Careers Webinar
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:
- Lucija Fleisinger, Medical Writer, Oxford PharmaGenesis, UK
- Laura McMahon, Senior Scientific Director and Team Lead, Envision Pharma Group, Scotland
- Brooke Morriswood, Manager, Scientific Services, Ashfield MedComms GmbH, Germany
2024: Total Internal Reflection’s year in review
The lifetime of a field
It’s not just scientists that get old. Scientific fields have their own lifetimes, just like people.
Continue readingGreat scientists, great moustaches VIII (a Movember posting)
It’s that time of year again! Here’s another instalment in the definitive guide to scientist moustaches, TIR’s annual celebration of some great minds and the great moustaches that went (just) before them. Links to parts I-VII can be found at the end for real moustache aficionados.
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