I am terrible at gifts. I realise this is a strange way to start an article titled “Gift ideas…” but I wanted to be honest. In the many years of being asked “What do you want for Christmas” there has never not been a year where I haven’t frozen like Read more…
Being an unemployed researcher is hard. The sofa is almost insufferably comfortable, there is a real risk of accidental coffee break overdose and the amount of cake you consume is frankly criminal. So last week I explained 4 things to help a temporally out of work researcher stay up to Read more…
Having gaps between research jobs is not uncommon. Research funding is surprisingly sensitive to politics and I think anyone over the age of 16 is well aware that politics is about as consistent as a random number generator that’s been thrown in a washing machine. I’ve met very few researchers Read more…
In this column, I spend a lot of time making fun of some of the more frustrating parts of science and research in general. But seeing as it’s a new year, I wanted to take the time to list a few things I think we should all try to do Read more…
