Tag: Europe

Sleeping Astrocytes: Failures and Successes on the Journey to Publication

Laura Bojarskaite: "I want to be honest and tell you the story of how science actually happened for me and not how science should have happened according to all the rules, supposed-to’s, and textbooks."

/ April 12, 2021

Protected: How Imprisonment Inspired My Freedom

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

/ July 19, 2019

Lessons Learned Late-ish

David Poeppel: "I appeared in a number of plays and directed a few, as well. I toyed very seriously with the idea of pursuing this line of work, because I had great fun in that milieu and did not feel...

/ June 27, 2019

Finding Myself Between Cacti in Mexico

"Being a research professor is not a 9-5 job. The work is never finished and there is always the next question. That is the fun of doing science."

/ March 25, 2019

Can You Ever Escape Your Personal and Scientific Bubbles?

I’ve wanted desperately from early on to have a straightforward path. I imagined that everyone knew what they were supposed to be doing professionally, and that they were surely great at it. Everyone but me. I always thought that I...

/ January 21, 2018

An expedition across the Atlantic Ocean

Stephanie Fiedler, PhD Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg An alarming sound rings through the ice-cold air as a giant crane lifts my heavy boxes. I quickly search for a way through the maze of steep staircases. My adventure on...

/ January 28, 2017