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Science for Sale – Commercialization of Scientific Innovations & Technology

There is secret to any trade, including science. To thrive in this highly competitive environment and capitalistic society, we, as scientists, feel compelled to keep our trade secrets. It has been normalized to intrinsically think that we have to protect and possess our knowledge and discoveries all to ourselves.

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6 June, 2023

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Data not shown – Scientific publishing is broken

Experiment X “failed”. It “didn’t work”, therefore (data not shown). Why is it culturally accepted to hide our negative data? How has it been normalized that neglecting negative results is good practice? What is it that led us to cherry-pick our data?

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5 March, 2023

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Creative destruction of scientific funding – a DeSci approach

The concept of money can be very complex. To some, it’s just means of commerce, or an association with social status and identities, or simply how we live and survive in this world. To me, most of the time, I see my dollars as voting rights.

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27 February, 2023

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Decentralized Science – should Science be crypto-fied?

The sharing economy and crowdsourcing has already penetrated our real world, say Uber, Airbnb, GoFundMe, etc. Sharing properties such as cars, houses, cash may have been normalized in our modern society. How about sharing responsibilities, governance, and other assets such as intellectual property (IP) rights and even scientific knowledge?

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13 February, 2023

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My confused relationship with Christmas

Mmmm the smell of pine tree, indoors. 24 days countdown to Jesus’ birthday celebration. Presents presents presents!

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4 December, 2022

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Infodemic – Scientific misinformation in this digital world

Is there a piece of scientific information that you just learnt on TikTok? YouTube videos? Twitter threads? Or a podcast episode?

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11 November, 2022

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Enable disabled – Dismantle ableism in academia

My recent close experience working with an intern who has visual impairment exposed my privilege of being able-bodied that many academics, and humans alike, often take for granted.

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Research and work culture

15 August, 2022

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STEM Pride – from bench to rainbow

Being queer in academia adds another layer to this loneliness. Look around, where are the LGBTQIA+ people?

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21 June, 2022

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LGBTQIA+ map: My personal journey navigating in this world as a queer person

Am I gay? Many of us don’t ask this enough, or even think about our own gender identity.

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Life in Sweden

15 June, 2022

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Meet the blogger – Hazel Ang (they/them)

Honestly, cooking/ recipe blogs are the only blogs I read. Even so, I often ‘Skip to the Recipe’. I like to bake; my pet is a sourdough starter called Doug […]

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Meet the bloggers

8 June, 2022

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Science for Sale – Commercialization of Scientific Innovations & Technology

Data not shown – Scientific publishing is broken

Creative destruction of scientific funding – a DeSci approach