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2010
- A Postdoctoral Journey
Image via Wikipedia In just under one month, I will be leaving Washington University in St. Louis and moving to Scotland to take up a lectureship at the University of St. Andrews. It's another big move…
- The Comprehensive Spending Review and Me
We arrived in Scotland, as planned, in September and have spent the last month settling in to our new surroundings. My first few weeks as a lecturer have been hectic. I still don't have any computer…
- The ideas game
It's been a while. Settling in to a new job has been terrifying and tiring in equal measure. The seemingly boundless spending of the early weeks has been replaced by an awfully adult awareness that the…
- Summer Internships
In the past few weeks, a couple of students have approached me asking if I would be willing to take them on as a summer intern. I scrabbled around to gather some information on the sort…
- Life-giving PhD students
Image via Wikipedia Last week, for the first time in just under than three years, I visited the Institute of Psychological Sciences at the University of Leeds . On Thursday attended the Greater Yorkshire Memory Meeting…
2011
- A Personal Take on Public Speaking
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Tomorrow I travel to Saarbrucken to give an invited seminar at Saarland University. It will be my seventh and penultimate talk of the academic year (with my last talk scheduled for ICOM in York at the…
- Surviving your first academic post
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I'm taking part in a Guardian live chat this Friday (1-4pm BST) titled 'Surviving your first academic post.' With this topic in mind, I'm noting some preliminary thoughts under a few themes. The points below relate…
2013
- Identifying Scientific Misconduct
Finding needle in haystack (Photo credit: Bindaas Madhavi) A former colleague of mine at an institution I no longer work at has admitted to being a science fraudster.* I participated in their experiments, I read their…
- Blogs: Public Engagement for Introverts
Earlier this week, I attended the BBSRC Eastbio Annual Symposium, a meeting for PhD students funded by the BBSRC's doctoral training programme. The theme of this year's meeting was 'Making an Impact'. Alongside one or two…
2015
- Bad things come in... EIGHTS??
I, like most humans, am bad at understanding randomness and good at spotting patterns that don't necessarily exist . I also frequently have thoughts like: "That's the third time this paper has been rejected. It must…
- Traveling abroad during your PhD
This is a guest post from Radka Jersakova ( @RadkaJersakova ), who did her undergraduate degree in my lab and is now working on her PhD at the University of Leeds. Radka has previously written on…
- PhD Position Starting September 2016
Come to St Andrews and figure out why déjà vu experiences decrease with age, with me and Ines Jentzsch . FindAPhD Advertisement (full text below) Please email ( aro2@st-andrews.ac.uk ) or tweet ( @akiraoc ) me…