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[…]
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Researcher Life : Getting out of the Tunnel
Its the ‘resolutions’ time of year! The first two years of my PhD were pretty challenging; full of technical roadblocks and the toils that come with setting up a lab and research design from scratch. As a result, I was mainly just reading work related things and towards the end[…]
Read moreResearcher Life: Reflecting on Conferences
As I traveled back from the last conference this year, I reflect on each of the 4 conferences/summer schools of the last 12 months, comparing and contrasting my take home from this year of travel and talks. Here’s my take on my recent conference experiences… This year (Sep 2016-Sep 2017)[…]
Read moreResearcher life: Bear in mind
So first, an update for my readers – After a long absence from my blog, for which I send across my heart-felt apologies, I have decided to post more often, and even post shorter articles when I’m on the go. I hope you still like this form of more uninhibited[…]
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Researcher Ramblings: Why the Sun Matters!
It’s 15.46. The lights are on. I sit at my office table looking at my ToDo list. Is this going to be one of those monologues like ‘I’m stuck in this abyss and I’m documenting it so someone knows how my last hours were spent’? Probably! Winter blues are best[…]
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