This is a guest post from Dr Joanna Waldie, Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and STEM Gamechanger. I’m a postdoctoral
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A life outside science
This is a guest post from Nathan O’Brien who works at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. “Are you up to much over the weekend?” I (perhaps naïvely)
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Kinder peer review
This is a guest post by Dr Rebecca Kirk, Executive Editor, Nature Partner Journals Every day, thousands of scientists around the world donate their spare
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On being brave
This is a Guest Post by Professor Dave Cliff I once made a video, or should I say: a video was once made of me.
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Helping someone become an ally
This is a Guest Post from Emanuil Tolev There are, of course, many paths to becoming an ally to underrepresented people in tech. My own
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Balancing a part-time PhD with paid work
This is a Guest Post from Andy Wilson As a mature self funding part-time astronomy PhD student I cannot be accused of taking the easy