Author Archives: Erika Cule

Commuting and communities

Posted on 8 September 2016 by Erika Cule

Biodiversity in Stevenage Stevenage, Hertfordshire Outpost of The Crick, closed Sundays after 1pm 80 Dartmouth Park Hill, London N19

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Self promotion

Posted on 31 July 2016 by Erika Cule

Self-promotion via Bad Science Jokes I do find the trope that women do not self-promote tiresome. If I self-promote, does this mean that I am not a woman? It is not in my nature to do disco moves in a … Continue reading →

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Father’s Day

Posted on 20 June 2016 by Erika Cule

One of the few issues on which my parents both took the same, apparently unwavering and absolute position was that of the sanctity of the secret ballot. Vote, my father said. No vote, no voice, he said. People died for … Continue reading →

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Bibliotherapy

Posted on 11 April 2016 by Erika Cule

When in doubt, read the instructions is to productivity what aphorisms are to meaning.

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Budapest

Posted on 24 March 2016 by Erika Cule

Everything the light touches

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Birthdays on the brother blog

Posted on 7 February 2016 by Erika Cule

Contemplating Birthdays on the Beach This week, I reviewed Having a Birthday as part of Ant Cule’s project antcule.reviews, (Subtitle: An Extremely Subjective View of Being A Human). For the uninitiated, Ant and I collaborated on this blog post about … Continue reading →

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MOOC review of Think Again: How to Reason and Argue

Posted on 11 January 2015 by Erika Cule

The Coursera course Think Again: How to Reason and Argue started again on Monday – there’s still time to sign up! I took the course in the second half of 2014, making me a Think Again alumnus. If you are … Continue reading →

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Over on the sister blog

Posted on 20 November 2014 by Erika Cule

Your one-stop feminist magazine Over on the sister blog, I have written about why images of women in science are important, in reference to #thatothershirt. About the sister blog: Belle Jar is a collaborative feminist project, committed to smashing patriarchal … Continue reading →

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Voices

Posted on 3 November 2014 by Erika Cule

One of the advantages of being “Beyond the PhD” is having enough time to do all of those things I used to want to do when all of my time was taken up by writing up. After handing in my corrections, and … Continue reading →

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Where in the world?

Posted on 2 March 2014 by Erika Cule

Bloggers clam up! Quiz question: where were these two photos taken?

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