The irreverent science writings of Matthew Partridge (MCeeP)
Writing is hard. It can be hard to start, hard to end and hard to keep doing it even when you’re in the middle of it. For short pieces like writing blog posts, the start and the end basically merge together to make a middle (fun fact: I sometimes write 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…
The average science experiment has two distinct parts to it. The part when you touch it and the part where you don’t. Some experiments require constant touching, but in general these needy experiments are rare. The vast majority require a bit of touching and a bit of standing and waiting Read more…
Deadlines are tricky things. When you are a young researcher deadlines are scary things that cause sleepless nights and sweaty lab coats. When you are an older researcher deadlines are more suggested, vague and probably for someone else. The word ‘deadline’ means helpfully pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Read more…
In previous years I’ve always started the year with an article on how to keep your research resolutions or what resolutions to make. But I always feel like that is reaching out to a niche section of my audience and doesn’t speak to the majority of us that understand that Read more…
Hello 2019 people! It’s a new year and that means some annual ErrantScience self reflective chat. If you are interested in a bit about behind the scenes of ErrantScience keep reading. If not then scroll straight to the survey, pretty please 🙂 2018 was, to put it mildly, a bit Read more…
Happy new year from everyone at ErrantScience. We’re still eating chocolate and recovering from New Years eve but the ErrantScience kids (aged 5 and 9) have very helpfully stepped in to provide some suggestions about how we can do better in 2019.
The Christmas holiday is a great time to kick back, relax and spend 10 hours a day staring at your phone trying not to accidentally pick sides in the family argument. ErrantScience is here to help as over the year we’ve provided 10s of thousands of words of fantastic content Read more…
Amongst the submissions to this request for PhD experiences was a lot of people talking about the day to day requirements about working all hours! To help make it clear how you should do a PhD I have prepared the following heatmap infographic on how PhD time should be spent.
This article exists in two forms. Firstly, you can read it in print in Laboratory News, the nice people that publish a free magazine that has been syndicating monthly ErrantScience content for years now. Or you are reading it on ErrantScience.com. Now for those reading it in a magazine I Read more…