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Bibliotherapy
When in doubt, read the instructions is to productivity what aphorisms are to meaning.
Posted in Blogging Beyond, Book Reviews, Life
Tagged aphorism, doubt, Facebook, instructions, life story, meaning, short poem
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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
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
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
Posted in Blogging Beyond, Women in Science
Tagged belle jar, thatothershirt, thatshirt, Women in science
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Voices
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
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…
Unexpectedly transferable skills
The transferable skills developed over the course of a PhD have been a recurring theme on this blog. I have blogged both about being trained and, later, about training other students, in the skills that might be useful beyond the office, lab, … Continue reading
Notebooks
Back in 2009 the day, in a discussion on the recently archived Nature Network, I mentioned that I liked to draft blog posts the old-fashioned way. I wrote that “It is easier to get started with a pen and paper than a … Continue reading
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Paying it forward
Once the corrections to my thesis had been approved by my examiners, I ordered copies bound in regulation purple and submitted one to Imperial College Library. As of March this year, a purple bound copy is no longer required – … Continue reading
