If there is one universal shared experience that I can, with some confidence, claim all researchers share then it is the love of free food. Be it biscuits, fruit, small strangely shaped corn things or sweets, every researcher feels the flutter of excitement at the addition of the word free Read more…
Last week we put up a post on Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon asking for some sciency ideas to cartoon. We asked because first off we wanted to draw the things you want to see and secondly it’s always important to make sure there are not areas that are missing some Read more…
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 at the very core, the point of the scientific method. Read more…
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 make us happier than there being hundreds of other science Read more…
Someone sent us a brand new version of Barbie Girl by Aqua specifically for Chemists and it’s great!
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.
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 drew cartoons live during the event for a whole bunch Read more…
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 leads to some variation in outcomes (e.g. oops that explodes Read more…
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 a follow up post-doc job. All very impressive. I only Read more…
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 we have in previous years we spend the conference reading these posters and drawing Read more…