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ErrantWritings

Announcing the best lab liquid award

Research is in many ways a subject of debate. Ideas are presented with evidence and through repetition and discussion they are tested and examined. Every discovery or methodology in science is subject to inquiry, dissection and disagreement because that is...

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ErrantContent

Adaptable adaptations in research

Working as a researcher is a job that requires a lot of adaptability. This is understandable given that the core of the scientific method could be loosely described as “I recon this might happen but let’s find out” which obviously...

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ErrantWritings

Don’t judge your PhD by someone else’s

Today whilst reading twitter I read an advert by a newly graduated PhD student offering tutorship to current PhD students. Their advert was based on that they had finished their PhD early, had written a bunch of papers and got...

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ErrantExtra

Talking about “How to cartoon geology”

We love cartoons. I doubt that comes as a shock to you, what with us being an entirely cartoon-based blog. But not only do we love the cartoons we make but we love basically all science cartoons and nothing would Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 2 weeks5 September 2023 ago
ErrantComics

I’m a science girl in a science world: Aqua does science

Someone sent us a brand new version of Barbie Girl by Aqua specifically for Chemists and it’s great!

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 2 months7 August 2023 ago
ErrantCommissions

Commission: Stressed little ice grains

A few months back we were contacted by Dr Johanna Kerch from the University of Göttingen in Germany looking for some cartoony help in helping convey the fun world of ice re-crystallisation.

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 2 months12 July 2023 ago
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Help needed for a study into women in STEM

Did you know there is a scientific research tool called the “Draw-a-scientist test” (DAST) that is used to understand how people perceive scientists? The DAST has been used to understand what people picture when asked to think about a scientist, Read more…

By Heather Saigo, 3 months27 June 2023 ago
ErrantContent

Scriptwriter seeks ecological #fieldwork fails

The funniest things happen when you’re out in the middle of a field – or bog, jungle, desert, wood, moor, alpine meadow – trying your best to do science. Sometimes, the science doesn’t want to be done and your equipment stops working. Suw is looking for the best stories for a new film script and wants your help!

By Suw Charman-Anderson, 4 months31 May 2023 ago
ErrantExtra

RSCPoster 2023 winner cartoons!

Every year the Royal Society of Chemistry runs an amazing Twitter poster conference called RSCPoster. The conference runs for 24 hours and has thousands of participants from all over the world posting posters and talking chemistry! As with previous years, we Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 5 months2 May 2023 ago
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Reflecting on the founding, growth and success of Overleaf – Part II

“Naively optimistic” – this was my opening to a blog post I wrote for Errant Science five and a half years ago, when Overleaf was approaching its fifth anniversary. Five years later, Overleaf is now ten, and after leading the Read more…

By John Hammersley, 5 months12 April 2023 ago

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