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All the live cartoons for #RSCPoster 2021

This year we have again been live cartooning the Royal Society of Chemistry’s amazing twitter poster conference RSCPoster. In 24 hours we produced 14 cartoon abstracts and one video. It was exhausting and lots of fun. You can read all the tweets we shared at the link below. ErrantScience RSCPoster Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 17 hours2 days ago
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Aim for something, anything!

To an outside observer research has a great air of focus, planning and careful consideration. From vaccine research to Nobel prize winning physics, research looks well organised and planned. To anyone that has ever worked in research then the reality is often confusion and a lot of eye rolling. But, Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 1 week1 week ago
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How to be a resilient researcher

Humans are an inventive bunch. We’re not long out of the trees and our brains have already given us literature, art and the sciences. We are a creative species that constantly seeks to invent, create and problem solve. However, as smart as we are Nature is often one of the Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 2 months3 months ago
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Measuring your Christmas lunch, scientifically

This Christmas to try and keep our scientific minds active and not despair at experiments lost but think to new experiments we can do. If we can’t do experiments in the lab let’s do experiments on Christmas!

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 2 months3 months ago
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Morning the loss of trade shows

There have been many changes since the start of the COVID crisis. For one the frequency of articles that start “something something COVID crisis” have sky rocketed and I’ve never started so many emails with “I hope you are well” and meant it with genuine concern. But one change was Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 3 months3 months ago
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An update on continuing to feel like an imposter, but an imposter that’s trying

A year ago I wrote a post about feeling like an imposter because I no longer work in academia, but that the blog posts wouldn’t stop… That was the last blog post I wrote… It’s been so long that the interface on the website for writing these posts has changed Read more…

By Michelle Reeve, 3 months3 months ago
ErrantWritings

How to do distance learning: a terrible guide no one should follow

It’s a brave new world. Universities, once busy centres of social interaction, intelligent discourse and complex drinking games, have become ghost towns which echo with only the sound of remote learning servers.

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 6 months6 months ago
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Being a good lecturer ≠ being a good distance lecturer

Teaching in universities has always been a strange thing. Anyone that has been through the university system is oh too aware of it’s inconsistencies, eccentricities and tweed. But things have suddenly changed….

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 7 months7 months ago
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Terrible tips for returning to the lab after a break

There are lots of reasons that you may need to take a break from working in the lab at some point. Over this year an unprecedented number of people have spent a significant time away from their labs and are only just now starting to go back. This is a Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 9 months9 months ago
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Hey! There’s a light at the end of this tunnel (hope it’s not a train)…Full speed, head-on, into the unknown.

There are some things that just stick with you. For example, in fourth grade I got called to the principal’s office over a playground argument. My mom taught in my school and I had never been so sick in my life as I was in that moment of dread. It’s a feeling I would never forget.

By Amanda Glaze, 10 months10 months ago

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