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What Can I Do to Help?
Men who’ve heard me talk about my book (Not Just for the Boys: Why we need more women in science), or more generally about the issues facing women in STEM, not infrequently ask me this question: what can I do … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged ECRs, Erin Zimmerman, maternity leave, motherhood, supervisors
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Stupid Chemists (perhaps)
I’ve recently returned from my annual visit to the High Polymer Research Group Conference, held at the picturesquely named village of Pott Shrigley at the Western edge of the Peak District. This is a conference about which I have written … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Culture
Tagged Careers, data, Pott Shrigley, robots
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Moving On from a Victorian Ideal
I’ve recently been reading How the Victorians took us to the Moon by Iwan Rhys Morus. It’s an interesting book, but what particularly struck me was the Epilogue, which has reflections on how the Victorian way of doing science in … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Culture
Tagged Amanda Solloway, incentives, lone genius, reward
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Not Being in the In-Crowd
Recently I was preparing a talk about work scientists may do that is not simply research and it has provoked me to think about when I fell into doing policy work, or at least moving out of the lab itself. … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Food Physics, grant panels, maternity leave
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Inefficiency as a Blessing in Disguise
In the process of tidying up my office I have managed to fill several large bins for recycling. I found many unremembered old reports. Indeed, sometimes I found multiple copies due to my incompetence in remembering where I filed the … Continue reading
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Tagged comfort break, inefficiency, pandemic, writing
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