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I’ve been in science for a third of my life, at world-class research institutes and now in the biotech industry. Over this time, I have run into 5 romanticised misrepresentations of what science is and who scientists are. I have listed these myths below, let me know what you think! Dose 1: Science is a…
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The Worst Nobel Prize Ever
In science, the worst Nobel Prize ever awarded must be the 1949 one in Physiology or Medicine, which went to Antonio Egas Moniz for the invention of frontal leucotomy. If you haven’t heard of leucotomy before, it’s because this procedure is better known with another name: lobotomy. In the 1930s, Moniz had developed this surgical…
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Save your PhD/PostDoc Before Stepping Foot in the Lab: Visit PubPeer
Here you are, ready to start a PhD or a postdoc. Maybe you are weighing your options, asking yourself questions โ which lab should I join? How fast will I publish? Are my papers gonna land in journals with a high impact factor? โ whose answers may very well steer your life in one direction…
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Disagreeing with Sherlock Holmes
Sorry Sherlock Holmes, after 13 years in science, I find hard to agree with your most famous quote: โOnce you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.โ Adapted to the lab, your pill of wisdom should read โOnce you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is…
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How I Conned Myself in the Pursuit of a PhD
I’m proud of my PhD in neuroscience, but, in hindsight, it conned me for 4 years. Or, maybe, did I con myself? No, I didn’t believe that once I had earned a doctorate, professorship would follow in two, three years. No, I wasn’t deceived into thinking that it would have opened all the doors. No,…
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To die because of your research. Or wondering if you will in a decade.
You may have read the harrowing story of รmilie Jaumain on my blog or elsewhere. It is a tragic and infamous case, many have covered it. But there is another deeply unsettling case that may have happened, another story of fatal infection by prionsโfatal is a pleonasm, when prions enter the body the mortality is…
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Are you a Scientific or a Science Writer?
Are you a scientific or a science writer?Short answer: it depends on your audience. Scientific writers: we address scientists, researchers. We write articles for specialized peer-reviewed journals such as Science, university textbooks, research grants, reports and protocols, and communications with regulatory agencies. Our writings are highly technical and detailed, because our readers are familiar with…
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To die because of your research. At 33 years old.
รmilie Jaumain died of a prion disease (variant Creutzfeldt-Jacobs disease, vCJD, the human equivalent of the โmad cowโ disease) in 2019. She was most likely infected in May 2010 while working in a French laboratory studying transgenic mice overexpressing prions. The contamination must have occurred when she pricked her thumb, through two pairs of gloves,…
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