PhD myth busting 2: You need to work 20 hrs a day!
Amongst the submissions to this request for PhD experiences was a lot of people talking about the day to day
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Dealing with being distrac- ooo a squirrel
This article exists in two forms. Firstly, you can read it in print in Laboratory News, the nice people that
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PhD myth busting 1: Your PhD will change the world and you’re a genius
So last week I put out a rare call for input from our readers. I asked for PhD stories and
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So this week I sat down to write an ErrantScience article all about the PhD experience. I’ve written plenty about
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Errant explanations: What is REF?
I miss the good of days of science. The days when you could write “I want to do X can
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An honestly terrible grant application
Project title some Complicated thing I mAde up to Spell an acronym, Haphazardly (CASH) Project Summary In our project proposal we plan
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A scary Halloween lab story
It was a dark and stormy night, probably. Joe was working in a basement lab with zero windows and hadn’t
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Important research Venn diagrams
There is no better way of understanding a subject that through simple diagrams. So to aid anyone wanting to better
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How to train an outdoors researcher: a terrible guide
Researchers are a varied bunch. Some researchers are very much indoor researchers and don’t ever leave the warm comforts of
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Dr. Workload, or: How I learned to be more productive and put self care first
Being a grad student is hard work, being a post-doc is hard work, being a professor is hard work. I
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