What links the 1924 Everest expedition with the 2024 Nobel Prizes?
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Reset, Reskill, Restart – A Year In
Reset Today is the anniversary of the day I walked away from academia. It took years of mulling over that decision, but I mustered the courage to go.…
Reset, Reskill, Restart – A Year In
Another sincere and disarmingly open account of life after #LeavingAcademia from Jess. Best wishes for the job search!
Pathfinding (some tips on finding science jobs outside academia)
There seems to be no shortage of outlets and people offering advice on how to find jobs outside academia right now, but for what it’s worth, this was the way I went about it.
Continue readingCouple power
In the run-up to my decision to leave academia, I had one huge asset: my wife’s career.
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Only in the abstract
I do miss academia, but only in the abstract.
Continue readingScientific supply chains
Attracting international scientists should be used to complement a domestic science base, not compensate for its deficiencies.
Continue readingA riposte to the Red Queens
Science and narcissism (an interview with Bruno Lemaitre)
TIR talks to immunologist Bruno Lemaitre, a key figure in Toll research, about science, academics, narcissism and narcissists. He is an observer and commentator on the dark side of success in scientific research.
Continue readingShutting up shop (a short guide on how NOT to start a research group)
In January 2023, I resigned from my position at the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Würzburg. Here are some of the things that I think I should have done differently when I moved there in 2015 to start my junior research group.
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Total Internal Reflection 