This month’s blog post is a very special throwback with my dear friend Dr. Sophie Elschner. Towards the end of our respective PhDs, in March 2020, Sophie and I each curated a week of rotating Twitter handles, the Real Scientists DE and R-Ladies RoCur accounts respectively. We were each other’s[…]
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Tolerance to Ambiguity on IG
Time and again, this blog has dealt with topics of mental health. Often, my own experiences and reflections on stress in academia, burnout, mindfulness exercises and whatever takes up brain space for me each month. In today’s post, I would like to introduce you to my art – a hobby[…]
Read moreResearcher Life: An Ode to PhDs
Everyone was happy to strike 2020 off the calendar, but not me. I finished my PhD in 2020, with all the publications I had strived for. And you may imagine finishing a PhD is like a clear achievement. One day you don’t have a title, and the next morning, you[…]
Read moreFrom the Psychologist’s Desk – Sailing the Corona Waters
Schools, colleges and universities are shut, most people are working from home, multiple countries are in lockdown, only essential services are working. The world as we knew it two months ago has changed drastically, thanks to the COVID-19 virus. Everyone is concerned – for their safety, for their loved ones,[…]
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My week with We Are R-Ladies
From 17.02.2020 till 22.02.2020, I curated the @WeAreRLadies Twitter account. An account for members of the R-Ladies community to talk about what they do and an opportunity to interact with the wider community. I am writing this reflective post in the last few hours of my curation. My goal for[…]
Read moreResearcher Life: Mindfulness
I am in the final stages of my PhD work. This, for me, means unstructured work hours, writing multiple articles parallelly, and job hunting. I knew it would be a hectic, chaotic 2019; and I pride myself at being organized and well-prepared for such a feat. As 2018 was coming[…]
Read moreResearch Collaborations – When Academia and Industry meet
When I started my PhD data analysis a few years ago, I found myself quite alone. Me and my R-Studio – struggling to find answers. Since I did not have anyone on the project who could guide me, or go over my scripts, I was spending excruciatingly long on every[…]
Read moreResearcher Life: Who Am I? – A cross-sectional analysis
Identity is a difficult concept to wrap one’s head around. Think about your identity for a moment. Who are you? Does your answer reflect your citizenship, residential status, your job description, the relationship you have with others, your gender, your education, your sexual orientation? What do you choose to be[…]
Read moreResearcher Life: How to Communicate to various audiences?
Over the last year, I have presented my scientific findings to a wide range of audiences from school children to people passing by on the streets of Berlin. Thanks to programs like Soapbox Science, Skype a Scientist and Letters to a Pre-Scientist, I’ve been able to hone my scientific communication[…]
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Researcher Life : Work-Travel-Life Balance
Research is a global field and involves a ton of travel – collaborations, conferences, talks, sabbaticals, training, its endless. If you are someone who, like me, enjoys travel, you may want to actively seek out such opportunities and turn them into mini vacations. Add to this vacations you take alone[…]
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