September 30, 2010

Five neat presentation tricks

Some tricks to pep up your next research presentation

September 27, 2010

The art of asking questions

In her first Guest post Julie Rudner wonders about the art of asking questions and its place in the research journey

September 23, 2010

Top five ways to better academic networking

How academics are a bit like chimps – or something

September 22, 2010

Reflecting on fugues and research design

In her second guest post Heather writes about the discomfort that often attends breakthroughs in understanding.

September 16, 2010

5 ways to make your supervisor happy

Sometimes it’s the little things that count

September 14, 2010

How to win (academic) friends and influence people

It is well known that professors can have favourite students, which usually irritates the heck out of the students who finally work out that they are not on the list. Being the favourite student can carry a lot of power – like access to the supervisor’s time and resources (in a perfect world, of course,continue reading.

September 8, 2010

Top 5 phone apps for researchers

Looking for an excuse to buy that smart phone? Here’s five.

September 6, 2010

On life in the lab and failure

What I found out about science during a nice trip to the country