This guest content was provided by a librarian who wishes to remain anonymous. They got in touch with ErrantScience and asked us to share some of the real life requests they’ve had while working on front desk. All of these are true and are the tip of the iceberg for Read more…
As an academic or researcher you are the top of a pyramid of human knowledge stretching back thousands of years. Your knowledge is the result of a litany of people before you building one small piece of the very large puzzle that you are now solving. Now, whether you are Read more…
So this week I sat down to write an ErrantScience article all about the PhD experience. I’ve written plenty about PhDs before from various perspectives but the article I was writing gave me pause. I am keenly aware that my own PhD experience doesn’t exactly match up with my peers Read more…
I miss the good of days of science. The days when you could write “I want to do X can I please have some money kind Sir” on a scrap of paper and then disappear into a lab for 20 years only to come out occasionally to sit for an Read more…
Being a grad student is hard work, being a post-doc is hard work, being a professor is hard work. I remember the constant state of stress, lack of sleep, concerns about deadlines and massive workload I carried as a doc student. Now, looking back five years later, I can say Read more…
