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“Researchers are the people who create knowledge. You need to train and support them.”

I got a chance to talk to Dr Conor O’Carroll, a research and higher education funding and policy expert, to get his view on research careers and academia generally.

Posted by lucaloveki

1 December, 2024

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Navigating the Half-time Seminar: My Experience and Tips

The half-time seminar is a significant milestone in a PhD journey at KI. It’s not an exam, but rather an opportunity to get valuable feedback, reflect on your progress, and refine your research plan for the remaining half of your doctoral studies. Here, I’d like to share my experience and some tips that helped me along the way, which I hope will be useful for other PhD students preparing for their half-time.

Posted by hagersaleh

21 October, 2024

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The Final Countdown: Your Thesis Defence

It’s time to finish the PhD. But the process requires some good planning to make sure it all goes smoothly. Since I am defending my own thesis soon, and have just been through this process, I have summarised the different steps in this post.

Posted by lucaloveki

19 August, 2024

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Open Access Publishing: An Unexpectedly Hard Challenge

Open access publishing is the simple idea that publicly funded published science is accessible for free by anyone with an internet connection.

Posted by lucaloveki

25 February, 2024

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Peer review – a system that needs revision

Peer review benefits science, but the system needs revision

Posted by lucaloveki

20 January, 2024

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Money, money, money, must be funny, in the rich grant’s world

Money is the answer to everything. Want to add fancy new experiments to your research project? Money. Want to attend that Conference is an exotic looking place? Money.

Posted by libevilela

17 October, 2023

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Nobel Prize Medal held by hands in gloves

Stockholm calling

The first week in October is special to anyone with an interest in science – this is when the new Nobel Prize Laureates are announced. In this blog post, some of our bloggers speculate who might get a call this year.

Posted by natalievonderlehr

29 September, 2023

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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.

Posted by queerioushazel

6 June, 2023

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Heart Disease in Women: We need to talk…

Men develop heart disease 5 to 10 years earlier than women. However, when women do develop heart disease, they are more likely to die in the year after a heart attack compared to men. Over the recent years, younger women between 30 and 50 years are developing heart disease due to an increased prevalence of hypertriglyceridemia (high triglycerides levels), diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. There are many reasons explaining the gender differences in heart disease development.

Posted by melodychemaly

8 March, 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?

Posted by queerioushazel

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.

Posted by queerioushazel

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?

Posted by queerioushazel

13 February, 2023

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Public engagement is essential for science

Public engagement is vital for both the public and scientists.

Posted by lucaloveki

14 December, 2022

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Showcasing our eternal quest for immortality

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so we may fear less. Marie Sklodowska Curie The latest […]

Posted by melodychemaly

11 December, 2022

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An Umbrella Academy (Part 1)

The importance of choosing a good supervisor and their constant support in early career stages Umbrellas protect us from the sun, the rain, and the wind. Academic mentoring is somehow […]

Posted by andreacelestedv

22 November, 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?

Posted by queerioushazel

11 November, 2022

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The only way forward is being true to yourself and your values

(She) realised that it’s not academia that she loves, but learning. To grow, to build new skills, to be innovative. Abeni Wickham Abeni Wickham is driven by her value to […]

Posted by leonievetter

5 May, 2022

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Picture of book, camera, camera rolls, towel

Hitchhiker’s Guide to Science Communication

So you have decided to engage in science communication. Great! But what’s next? My suggestion: find an initiative you like and get a ride.

Posted by natalievonderlehr

11 March, 2022

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Not the typical academic

Even though Liisa van Vliet spends most of her time at a lab in Cambridge, sees world-famous scientists passing by almost on every-day basis and is immersed in the all […]

Posted by kristinakarale

15 February, 2022

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A huge 18 hexagonal mirrors containing telescope is about to be launched on Christmas Eve

The largest telescope in human history, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is planned to be launched on Christmas Eve this year and is said to show the humanity the things […]

Posted by kristinakarale

18 December, 2021

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“Researchers are the people who create knowledge. You need to train and support them.”