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How to train an outdoors researcher: a terrible guide
Researchers are a varied bunch. Some researchers are very much indoor researchers and don’t ever leave the warm comforts of modern indoor heating systems. Others are wild and free and can sometimes go days without ever returning to fresh food and indoor toilets. Researchers themselves tend to have a preference Read more…
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Tips for playing music in the lab
Shakespeare wrote that “If music be the food of love, then play on”. Clearly he was wrong, everyone knows that pizza is the food of love. If Shakespeare had been more science minded then he would have seen that music is the ‘snack of science’, it’s not required but it sure Read more…
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How to reply to reviewers: a terrible guide that no one should follow…
Despite my prolific blog output, I managed to find time earlier this year to write a paper. It was a labour of love, passion and frustration at Word’s image handling system. As a new academic and as a proto-academic, I have been given lots of training on how to write papers. They Read more…
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Tradition, in Science
Scientists are not infallible. In Research, we always strive to follow the scientific method to resolve problems but sometime a bit of human fallacy creeps and occasionally you find scientists doing very silly things because “that’s just how it works” or “the previous student said I had to do it Read more…
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The Funding Cycle
When we started up this blog I had hoped to post a bit more educational content on the workings of the sensors we develop and the research that we do. Sadly, however, I have been nowhere near a lab in what feels like months. Partly this is because I have Read more…