I got married during my PhD, after I had published my first paper and presented at conferences. I deliberated for years about what to do
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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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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
How to be a great postgraduate teaching assistant
It doesn’t seem long since you were struggling to finish essays in time or wrestling with problem sheet after problem sheet and yet here you
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Is your inner impostor holding you back?
Do you walk into that important meeting feeling that everyone else is expert and knows what they’re talking about, and that you must have been