Working 9-5
What a way to make a living … a lot of the time PhD’s and also academic jobs are portrayed as having very long hours, essentially we are worked to the bone for not a lot of money, but is this really true? Do we have to work long hours or risk not achieving our goals? […]
Should we give up on the selfish gene?
So this one is going to be a science opinion post not a life at Leicester post because at the weekend I read this article: http://aeon.co/magazine/nature-and-cosmos/why-its-time-to-lay-the-selfish-gene-to-rest/ Thank you kindly to Josh and Chuck at HowStuffWorks.com for their weekly “The Best Stuff We’ve Read This Week” which appeared on my twitter at the weekend. For any budding […]
Demonstrate your knowledge to me
One way to earn additional income as a PhD student is to do some demonstrating. For me this means helping out students in undergraduate labs. I’ve just completed my first stint on BS1005 – the first year genetics module. For 5 weeks I was assigned the same 20 students each week to help oversee their […]
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
I really hope that at least some people had Michael Bublé singing in their heads when they read the title of this post. I am undeniably one of those people that loves Christmas, I could listen to Mr Bublé’s Christmas album over and over again (although on the theme of Christmas songs I have to say that […]
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