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Category Archives: Science Culture
Is this an Insoluble Problem?
Previous posts by fellow OT blogger Jenny Rohn (here and here) and me (here) about fellowship funding have sparked a lot of debate and interest. With the report that Science is Vital has just produced for David Willetts described in … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Science Culture, Science Funding
Tagged David Willetts, fairness, fellowships, postdocs, Science is Vital
36 Comments
Nodes and Links
This week I was invited to talk at the annual conference organised by Postdocs at the Institute of Cancer Research; the Conference’s theme was Networking and I was asked to talk about how networking has influenced your career and any … Continue reading
Why Should She Do it All?
My recent article in the THE about cultural expectations being imposed on young girls (which also appeared as a post here) got a mixed reception in the online comments. Several seemed to have failed to grasp the central point that … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Science Culture, Women in Science
Tagged Allison Pearson, children, maternity leave, Ottoline Leyser
6 Comments
How Do You Know How to Write a Thesis?
I wrote my PhD thesis so long ago it was typed for me by someone else based on my handwritten chapters; the diagrams were drawn laboriously and messily by me with a pen, ink and a fair number of smudges; … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Research, Science Culture
Tagged communication, examiners, PhD thesis, viva
8 Comments
Start of Year Shenanigans
Having returned from a few days of holiday, I am feeling frivolous. So here is a sketch representing the Start of the Academic Year at the Department of Paintballing The main characters in this sketch are described in a previous … Continue reading
