ErrantScience guests and wonderful people that help contribute content
Dr Katie Bouman. If you have been on the internet and looked at any science content this week you will know that name. Dr Bouman played a critical part in developing the algorithm that enabled us to successfully obtain an image of a black hole for the first time by Read more…
This guest content was provided by a librarian who wishes to remain anonymous. They got in touch with ErrantScience and asked us to share some of the real life requests they’ve had while working on front desk. All of these are true and are the tip of the iceberg for Read more…
Susanna L. Harris, Founder and Chief Executive Officer From my seat at the front of the conference room, I turned around to scan the group of science graduate students excited about changing the world. Had someone told me last March that 1% of those students dealt with depression, I would Read more…
Academia (noun): the environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship. Readers of this blog will more than likely be familiar with academia. But how do you feel about this definition? I would agree with it, but in my opinion academia today is concerned with the pursuit Read more…
This year has been a bit of a hectic one for the Clutter overlords, so we’re especially grateful to our guest writers who have helped keep the blog going. Below is a round-up of 2018’s brilliant guest posts, from managing supervisors and juggling motherhood and research, to advice on making Read more…
Being a grad student is hard work, being a post-doc is hard work, being a professor is hard work. I remember the constant state of stress, lack of sleep, concerns about deadlines and massive workload I carried as a doc student. Now, looking back five years later, I can say Read more…
The undergraduate years remind me of being an adolescent. It’s an awkward stage in which you try to wade through schoolwork while also trying to answer very philosophical questions such as, “What do I want to do with my life?” If your sights are set on doing science, the question Read more…
And now for something completely different. Let’s jump ahead to that (seemingly impossible) point in the future where you’ve spent enough time working on THE graph as well as many other graphs and words, which have themselves come from what feels like millions of experiments. You’ve not slept a full Read more…
Hello! Welcome friend. Pull up a rocking chair and sit down. I am yet another person who wants to tell you what to do and how to do it. But bear with me here – what follows is not your ordinary life advice. It is ‘Claire Murray Life Advice™’ (It Read more…
