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Good morning girls and boys, I really hope you have enjoyed breakfast (with or without brains, to your liking) I also hope you have seen the last line in the post where I kindly (wink wink) ask you to submit the post to OpenLab2013. What is that and why I ask? Bora Zivkovik explains it…
The sun still hasn’t risen in the horizon, but it doesn’ t matter. The light of the fluorescent tubes is always on. Those that make your skin look gray even in a city were the sun is almost never missing (so statistics say). It doesn’t matter if it is Monday or Sunday, there’s always light…
For those of you who still haven’t noticed. Things are getting tough out there. I am not talking about Germany…yet, but all over the world cuts in science funding are becoming more than an anecdote. It’s taking place in the States, in the UK, even in “rich” countries such as Holland there are some issues….
You know him only from seeing him around, know only about his reputation but somehow ever since you heard about his “niceness” he seems to be everywhere, why would that be? It’s really no news that gossip, and what people say about other people influences the way we consider them and their behavior; what’s new…
There are days like these, that suck. Days when you ask yourself, what am I doing here? Days where it seems like the motivation dose they gave you at your scientific baptism (if such a contradictory thing could ever exist) has run out. Not a single drop left. And even then, you get up, get…
This is an article I wrote for Nature Careers explaining why we scientists do what we do, (which is nearly masochistic, at least sometimes) from my personal perspective and based on my experience so far. Enjoy! “Here is my confession: I am hooked on Science. I tried quitting, living a normal life, you know,…