About me

7 Responses to About me

1. Cynthia says:

   23 April 2011 at 6:15 am

   Thanks for your inspiring piece in Nature’s Seven Ages of the PhD. I really enjoy the blog!
   I keep a blog as well – on science and photography, called Photons and Neurons

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2. Erika Cule says:

   29 April 2011 at 3:57 pm

   Thanks for the comment Cynthia! I am glad you enjoyed the Nature piece – I think it offers insights across all generations and continents. I saw from your blog that you are about to start your PhD. Good luck! 🙂

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3. Puneet Sharma says:

   30 April 2011 at 3:02 pm

   Hi Erika!
   Went through your articles “Birthday Surprises” and short write up in Nature’s “Seven Ages of PhD”. Both of them are very well written =) and really enjoyed reading them (will be sharing them with my friends too). *Thumps up!*

   By the way, I am graduate student in Biotechnology and will be starting my dissertation in stem cells biology.

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   • Erika Cule says:

     30 April 2011 at 3:33 pm

     Thanks Puneet. I had fun writing both of those pieces. Blogging is a way for me to keep practicing my writing whilst I am studying. Best of luck with your dissertation! 🙂

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4. Nikola says:

   10 May 2011 at 6:19 pm

   Dear Erika,

   I just want to say great work with this blog and I really enjoyed your contribution to Nature’s Seven Ages of the PhD. I have been thinking about starting up my own blog in Serbian for students from my university to write about my experiences as a PhD student abroad (I am from Serbia and will be starting my PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge this October). As I was ‘growing up’ at my university I felt that there was a lack of information about what our options were when we graduated and what it would be like as a PhD student. I’m hoping to change that by blogging about my experience and posting information about various opportunities. I was inspired by your blog so I think that I’ll definitely spend this summer researching how to get mine started!

   Keep up the good work!

   Cheers

   Nikola

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5. Erika Cule says:

   10 May 2011 at 6:29 pm

   Hi Nikola

   One of the reasons I started my blog was that I wanted to share my experiences with other PhD students. During your studies I imagine that you will face some of the same issues I did (and do), but that you will meet some different challenges because you are moving countries for your PhD. Starting a blog is easy (we like wordpress round here!), I encourage you to get started – and check back here when you have your URL.

   Good luck with your blog, and the PhD.

   Erika

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   • Nikola says:

     11 May 2011 at 2:10 pm

     Hi Erika,

     Thanks for the reply and for telling me about wordpress. I’ll definitely look into it once I’m done with my Master’s thesis in a few weeks.

     Best

     N

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