It’s been a while since I’ve written about my garden beds. With the temperatures quickly dropping (particularly where I am now, which tends to be colder than Melbourne), I decided to remove some of the remaining tomatoes and start on the autumn crop. Tomato season wasn’t the best this year. […]
I’ve written a post in the past about what I thought was the most useful skill after a Ph. D, but I thought I’d expand a little further on this topic today by making… a list! Once I realised I didn’t want to pursue a Post-Doc, I sought advice from […]
Well, I couldn’t wait any longer. The water quality hadn’t changed in a week, Miele the Hoover fish was looking a bit bored and scared of our presence, so we decided to just get more friends. They’re your standard Leopard Danios (as opposed to the Zebra ones, which are striped), […]
Previously, on ‘A Bug’s Life’, I wrote an update on my latest hobby. Now, in that, I alluded to the need to ‘cycle’ the tank, because it’s brand new and it’s much better to have this going before I put live fish in it. So, what is this ‘cycling’ I […]
Today marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! There are many, many posts by fellow scientists under the hashtag #IDWGS2021, and many colleagues are posting their stories of how they’re celebrating their own achievements (and that of others). If someone asked me fifteen years ago whether I […]
A little while ago, I posted about my new hobby. That’s right. A tank full of water. It’s very exciting. Just kidding! As entertaining as it is to have a tank full of water, the end goal is to obviously have some fish in it. I don’t want it to […]
I’m currently drafting a document with multiple people, and it made me think about something. I still dread the feedback I receive for my writing. I’ll be totally honest here- I’ve never been good at taking any sort of criticism. Even as a child, I would take every comment to […]
Ph. Ds are intense. It’s pretty much like a rollercoaster ride, with lots of ups and downs, sometimes within a single hour. Lots of things can go wrong, and you only get the occasional, rare reward. After weathering all that it throws at you, a Ph. D is supposed to […]
On the rare occasions that people ask me directly for career advice, I get asked the above quite a bit. Maybe they’re undergraduate students that I’m teaching, or maybe it’s former lab members who are finishing up with their Ph. Ds? Either way, for people who are about to step […]
So, I haven’t posted a pic of my vege patch recently, so I’m doing so now… To put it lightly, it’s going gangbusters. Looking forward to eating more stuff!!
