Julie Vanderlinden – nature, the life of a scientist and researching ageing (The Poster Session, part 9)
Meet Julie - a nurse, a traveler, a doctoral research fellow and a lovely person. Check her story out in the Poster Session.
Femke Gebruers – Addicted to science (The Poster Session, part 8)
Here's Femke - a professional scicommer! I adore the fact she works with science-buffs from all ages! Meet her in her Poster Session here!
The science impostor (part 2) – Beating our brain in its own game of insecurities.
In this part two of the twin-post on the impostor syndrome, I summarise some of the popular and relatively easy ways to stop yourself from self-sabotage.
The science impostor (part 1) – You are not good enough to be a scientist!
A two-part blog post on what it's like to have an impostor syndrome as a scientist and how to tell. You probably have it too!
Speak human to me, scientist!
Science can be difficult to understand. But if you are not in with the latest jargon, in can be practically incomprehensible. And here's why that's a bad thing...
Standing up for science – does making science comedy help scientists?
To laugh or not to laugh with/at science?
(R)evolutionary Nobel, 2018 – Chemistry
The Nobel prize week is often compared to the Oscars of the scientific world. Who won and what were they wearing?
To milk or not to milk – does adding milk to your coffee decreases the kick you get?
What does coffee do to you? And does adding milk to your cup changes that?
Nanotechnology – a silver bullet against food and packaging waste?
Now that we made food and packaging waste become such a major public heath and environmental problem, lets see what we can do to solve it.
Going viral – how much of our DNA is truly human?
We share 99% of our genome with chimps. But how much of the rest one percent is truly ours? Read on to find out some of the mysteries of our genes