Author Archives: Erika Cule

Commuting and communities

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Self promotion

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? šŸ˜• It is not in my nature to do disco moves in a lab, but I do … Continue reading

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Father’s Day

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

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

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Budapest

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Birthdays on the brother blog

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 giving a talk, back when … Continue reading

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MOOC review of Think Again: How to Reason and Argue

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

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 norms, one day at … Continue reading

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Voices

One of the advantages of being ā€œBeyond the PhDā€ is having enough time to do all of those things IĀ used to want to doĀ 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?

Quiz question: where were these two photos taken? For bonus points: add a photo of yourself in the same location to this nascent collection…

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