As usual, this month I’ve been going out of my way to try new things. It’s a habit I strongly recommend and I always enjoy looking back at the end of the month to see what I’ve been able to try. This month I’ve tried: 1. Visiting Croatia! We spent a week on… Continue reading New things I tried in May
Every month I do a quick round up of at least five of the new things I’ve been trying. I find it’s a fun way of looking back on what I’ve been getting up to and a good way to keep track of things. I’ll put links to previous months’ posts at the end of today’s… Continue reading New things I tried in February
I handed in my PhD thesis on 23rd September. For PhD candidates, almost every country (and probably every university) has a slightly different way of dealing with what comes next. In some instances, simply handing in the thesis with a supervisor’s approval would be enough. If you’re doing a PhD in one of those places,… Continue reading The PhD viva
Disclaimer: I might not work for free but I do volunteer. I volunteer my time for all kinds of things, mostly involving teaching children about science, because I think that’s important. Volunteering is a good thing but should not be confused with work in the sense of potentially gainful employment. This blog post was prompted… Continue reading Why I don’t work for free
I love trying new things whenever I can. Every month I share five of the new things I’ve tried for this series. If you’re interested in what I tried in previous months you can find the posts here: January | February | March Also, if you think there’s something new that I just have to try… Continue reading Five new things I tried in April
How is March over already? Can we really be a quarter of the way through 2016? It feels like it has gone far too quickly. For me, especially. I’ve mentioned this before but my PhD is coming to a close. I’ve changed my student status to that of a “writing up” student to indicate to… Continue reading A quarter into 2016
I’ve been running this WordPress blog since 1st January 2016. Posts go back further than that, but that’s because WordPress allows you to postdate things – all the posts before 1st January originally appeared on Tumblr before I moved over here. As it happens, yesterday’s post was my 200th. I’ve not missed a single day… Continue reading Some milestones
When I started getting interested in science outreach and public engagement it was mostly through directly speaking to audiences. However, I quickly realised that, unless I organised these myself, opportunities to speak about science would be quite limited. Fortunately, Glasgow has a fantastic student-run science magazine, The GIST. They mostly publish their articles online but… Continue reading Science writing
This was originally posted on my Tumblr blog, so if it sounds a bit strange here, that’s why. Since then I’ve been migrating posts across to wordpress. I’m still sort of getting set up and working out what I like but I have Plans for this change of platform… It may have been noticed that… Continue reading Blogging
In Becky's Head 