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What’s in John’s Brain?
Good day, everyone. Maybe by the end of this post if you don’t agree that it is a good day, you will at least see why I think it is. Ten years ago today, something Really Bad happened to my brain. I...
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Getting Lost: A Scientist’s Dispatch from a London-China Trade Mission
At this writing (17 October, 2013), I am headed home after a 10-day trip to China as part of an RVC delegation participating in a London Universities International Partnership (LUIP) event (celebrating...
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Science, Humanity… and Spock?
I am sure someone, in the vast literature on science communication out there, has written about this much better than I can, but I want to share my perspective on an issue I think about a lot: the...
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Co-rex-ions
This post is solely my opinion; not reflecting any views of my coauthors, my university, etc, and was written in my free time at home. I am just putting my current thoughts in writing, with the hope of...
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The Anatomy of One Career in Science
Vulnerability, Strength and Success I’ve been doing a series of career guidance sessions with my research team, and this past week we talked about how to structure a successful career path as a...
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Worst Day of My Career
Even nine years later, I still keep thinking back to a day, early in my career as an academic faculty member based in England, that traumatized me. Today I’m going to share my story of that day. I feel...
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Managing a Research Team: A Dissection
How do I manage my team of 10+ researchers without losing my mind <ahem> or otherwise having things fall apart? I’m often asked this, as I was today (10 December; I ruminated before posting this...
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In Search of Hashtag
For about 3 years now I’ve used the #WIJF (i.e. acronym for What’s In John’s Freezer) hashtag to organize my social media efforts on this blog. Over that time I became aware that “wijf” in Dutch can be...
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Thawing Out Ideas on Research Management
This is a follow-up post to my earlier one and also weaves into my post on “success” (with a little overlap). I am sharing my thoughts on this topic of research management, because I try to always keep...
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On Human Curiosity and Empathy
I was greatly inspired by scenes from the global Women’s March this weekend. It was one of the more beautiful things I’ve seen lately in times that otherwise feel very dark. I write this post with some...
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Name That Blame
A thread that has run through my various rants on this blog, usually more implicitly than explicitly, has been blame. Who or what is to blame for something undesirable? Blame is another name for...
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