Category: work/life balance

Keeping enthusiasm

December 12, 2013 at 1:38 pm

by Juliane As a postdoc it is sometimes hard to maintain enthusiasm. When I started in science I was super-enthusiastic, everything was new and interesting and I learned fascinating stuff every day. I sometimes wish I was still like that. Over time I noticed that there is  another side of lab work: failed experiments, hours of […]

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Dancing Science

October 30, 2013 at 10:59 am

The seminal and most hilarious (in my opinion) science dance video on you tube, is the one where a rather large group of students danced the prokaryotic translation on a football field at Stanford in 1971. Since the 70s quite a lot of science themed dance videos were posted on youtube, or wherever they got posted […]

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On being a postdoc and a father

September 29, 2013 at 11:58 pm

by Daniel As a postdoc I have attended many conferences and workshops dealing with work and life balance, but I feel that the father’s role is sometimes overlooked. I would like to share my experiences on being a postdoc and a rookie father. At the end of my second year of postdoctoral tenure at Boston […]

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