A Bright Christmas #20 At the end of last year, I made a bunch of New Year’s resolutions for 2020. As crazy as it may sound, I managed quite many of them (such as defending my thesis, yes!), including the plan to go camping for one night every month. Little did I know at the… Read More Highlights of the year of a happy camper
A Bright Christmas #14 One of the highlights of my PhD has been the wonderful people I have met on the way and the network I have been able to build. It took me forever to write the acknowledgments of my PhD thesis, as I really wanted to thank the many, many people who helped… Read More “We are all in this together”
A Bright Christmas #7 Have you ever been to Stockholm in December? If you have, I bet you have noticed two things. One: it gets dark incredibly early. Two: the citizens of Stockholm are extremely determined to defeat this darkness. With success: the vast amount of twinkling lights everywhere in the city center can brighten… Read More Nobel Week Lights
Dear younger me, Congratulations! You have just been admitted as a doctoral student. You are eager and fresh and ever so ready to contribute to a tiny corner of the scientific world. Just one thing before you start: this will be a long process. You remember the story of the hare and the tortoise, right? Here… Read More Letter to my younger self
It is the most wonderful time of the year… because the ice skating season is (almost) here!… Read More Stockholm on ice – part 1
I have a confession to make. I have become a plant lady. Don’t get me wrong: I am still by no means an expert on plants. I actually forgot the names of all my plants except for my two spider plants because literally nothing ever kills them ( they are almost like weeds! It’s amazing*).… Read More Growing (in) my PhD
“As a child, I wanted to become a veterinarian, but I was not great at physics. Yet, on the last skiing trip with my colleagues, I was giving a presentation about the heart and explaining how the blood flows using the laws of physics.. So I am still learning new things in my job as a medical writer.” … Read More “I need to be challenged by doing new things”
Katja Petzold, associate professor at Karolinska Institutet, is so enthusiastic about her science, that it is actually hard to talk about her career path as a scientist without discussing what she loves to study: the function and structure of RNA using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.… Read More “Learn by doing and do what you love”
(Mood: eager) We have all been there. In the middle of cutting the Christmas ham, the uncle to your right seizes his opportunity to ask the question that you would have preferred to avoid for one night. “So tell me, how is your PhD project going?” Your mind racing, you are trying to think of… Read More The Christmas Guide to Science Communication … to your loved ones
(Mood: hopeful) Dear reader, The reason I am writing this letter, is that I think the Christmas calendar would be better, if there is a place in it for me and my celebration, that is why I am writing this job application. My name is Sinterklaas, I know, it is hard to pronounce, maybe my… Read More A letter from Sinterklaas
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