Research posters aren’t arts and crafts. They are an essential skill. Years later, now that I have made, judged, and cartooned countless posters. Here are a few insights: highlight your key message, keep text readable, avoid clutter, and make clear and understandable figures. Remember: a poster isn’t a thesis.
All thanks to imposter syndrome and the first rejections, we end up believing all of our peers are secret super geniuses and will soon discover that we are, in fact, dumb dumbs. But in reality, we are all dumb dumbs in our own ways and often need lot more help than we ever want to admit.
So a few months back we were contacted by Marine Duperat a PhD candidate from Quebec working in Forest Sciences to commission a comic to go in her thesis. Marine went on to describe her life in the world of Forest Research and listed all the things she thought were Read more
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
The life of a Ph.D. student is a strange one. Extraordinary focus can be commensurate with a curious sense of solitude. It can be difficult, at times, to escape that unusual sense of detachment from the world around you as you delve deeper into the intricacies of your research. This Read more
I like writing. I’ve missed writing since finishing my PhD, even though I didn’t really enjoy writing my thesis. Rather, I didn’t enjoy the style my thesis had to be written in – I kept getting told off for it being too informal, though my argument was that it should Read more
The PhD experience is a series of wild oscillations between feeling gloriously competent and wildly out of your depth. These oscillations occur on a semi-hourly basis when you begin, lengthen out to months somewhere in the middle, then rapidly shrink back to hourly, if not half-hourly, as you reach the Read more
This month we’ve had a range of different topics covered in our weekly blog posts, from lab-snacking to the joy of science. First, I looked back on the last 6 months since becoming a Doctor, reflecting on how some things in life have changed, and how some haven’t. Next, Matthew Read more
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
Here are all the cartoons you might have missed over the last week or so. Follow on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook to see daily cartoons from ErrantScience.