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
The global pandemic of coronavirus changed the lives of millions of people, and I am no exception. However, in this post, I will tell you about my PhD defense as, so far, the best day of my life. I was lucky to have an amazing opponent and a very experienced examination board. Despite that three… Read More The best day of my life
As a part of a new traditional blog post for KI, I was supposed to spend December 9th as an attendant of the Nobel Week Dialogue. The topic this year was incredibly interesting: ”Into the unknown: uncertainty, risk, and opportunity”. To attend the meeting, I woke up at 4 o’clock in the morning, did my… Read More Per risks ad opportunities
Food: Food for body; Christmas is one of the most beautiful and magical times. In Poland most of families will spend this time together preserving old Christmas traditions. The Poles have many of them such as singing carols, eating 12 dishes (no meat or alcohol) on Christmas Eve, looking for the first star or going… Read More Pierogi: Polish delicacy
A modern haiku (5-7-5) brought to you by Evangelia… Read More The Swedish academic during the December month
It is the most wonderful time of the year… because the ice skating season is (almost) here!… Read More Stockholm on ice – part 1
Day 8 in our ChristmasCalendar2019!Food: Food for Thought
Day 5 in our ChristmasCalendar2019! Food: Food for the Body “Oh, what is this? Smells so good! Really, you made it? Oh wow, so nice!” The reactions I heard last year after giving my homemade Christmas gifts to some of my family members were not far from the lines you just read above. I felt… Read More A Merry-Granola-Christmas
It has been a week since we all gathered in a chilly but cosy Sunday evening at Stallet, here in Stockholm, for “Moving Across – Where Art meets Science”
“Moving Across”, an event organized by a group of creative researchers from Karolinska Institutet, brought to a general audience a synergistic connection between interesting biomedical research and its artistic and entertaining explanation by the “Improv” group Improphilia. Sounds fun, right?… Read More “Moving Across – Where Art Meets Science”
Welcome to Part 3 of this series, the final instalment in this discussion of the arduous postdoc phase.… Read More What is a postdoc? Finding answers amidst ambiguity – Part 3
An inside perspective on being a researcher and career advice
An inside perspective on being a researcher and career advice
