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Please stop snacking in the lab an impassioned plea to idiots

I have a confession. Despite years of terrible paper work, awful online training, tedious training days and being very sarcastic online I am actually a stickler for health and safety (H&S to cool people). I like being alive and I like that some people have spent quite a lot of Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 4 years10 April 2019 ago
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PhD myth busting 1: Your PhD will change the world and you’re a genius

So last week I put out a rare call for input from our readers. I asked for PhD stories and experiences and got… PhD stories and experiences, which was a big shock to us all. There’s a chance our readers are actually intelligent people that want to contribute constructively to Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 4 years21 November 2018 ago
ErrantComics

Important research Venn diagrams

There is no better way of understanding a subject that through simple diagrams. So to aid anyone wanting to better understand research there are 5 Venn diagrams that simply explain some of the key concepts.

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 4 years24 October 2018 ago
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Some days research sucks, keep going

Recently a friend told me a story. Back during her degree she was working on a project with an MSc student and her boss to develop a doughnut shaped laser. She assures me that there are very clever valid reasons why you’d have a doughnut shaped laser beyond “mmmm doughnuts”. Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 5 years7 March 2018 ago
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Writing and labs, the research ebb and flow

Life tends to ebb and flow with workloads, personal crisises and famously, how many busses arrive at any given time. In research this ebb and flow relates to the amount of time researchers have to swear at Microsoft word, as opposed to making clicky noises with pipettes in the lab. Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 5 years11 October 2017 ago
ErrantComics

Comic: Hugs Solve Everything

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By Matthew (@MCeeP), 6 years24 May 2017 ago
ErrantWritings

Marvelling at the new

I am from time to time, a little cynical about science, research and particularly academia (it’s the bureaucracy that causes it). Indeed, you might notice the subtitle of this blog highlights that it’s all about being ‘irreverent’ about science. But as some of you might know, I actually love science. Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 6 years24 August 2016 ago
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Introducing the Academic Olympics

If you haven’t noticed, it’s Olympiad season. I’m not especially sporty myself – I quite like sports but just in a “lazily half-arsing them in a park on a Sunday” kind of way and not “watch them and wave tiny coloured flags while wearing very expensive branded shirts”. But right Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 6 years17 August 2016 ago
ErrantWritings

5 ways to keep doing science in a heatwave

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 7 years20 July 2016 ago
ErrantWritings

Review: Lab wars

Hey matthew. How are you? I wondered if you’d be interested in writing a guest blog on my website for my upcoming game I designed with my partner? Not sure if you’ve seen it but its a board game where you play as a lab to crush competitors for scientific Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 7 years8 June 2016 ago

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