This is a guest post by Rhyd Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Operational Research, School of Mathematics, Cardiff University UK. In recent years, there has been
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Category: Bad bits of science
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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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Be kinder to yourself
I have spent the majority of my working life as a lecturer and senior lecturer in a mid-ranking university and being reasonably successful in most
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If you were the only girl in the … room?
My journey into computing started quite late, in my last two years of high school in Switzerland. I decided to take an International higher level
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Reviews are in: a bit of me just died
Judgement happens all the time in academia. You write a thing, spending days of your life making it as beautiful as you possibly can. Maybe
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My worst presentation
My first ever scientific presentation was for my 6-month Masters project as part of my Physics degree. And it was bad. The presentation started off