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Top 5 pieces of advice to aspiring or first year PhD students

If you’re currently looking for a PhD project or if you’re in your first year, I hope this blog can give you some guidance and useful advice on what to expect during your journey as a PhD student. Continue reading Top 5 pieces of advice to aspiring or first year PhD students

tabijenkinsNovember 28, 2018November 27, 2018Leave a comment
Education & careers, Events, Science communication & public engagement, Uncategorized

Engaging kids with Bioinformatics and Synthetic Biology

Our activity titled “Decoding and Designing”, which was part of the Midlothian science festival, brought the concepts of Bioinformatics and Synthetic Biology to kids. Those are two abstract terms which sound difficult to comprehend and communicate. Continue reading Engaging kids with Bioinformatics and Synthetic Biology

tabijenkinsNovember 21, 2018November 20, 2018Leave a comment
Education & careers, Science communication & public engagement, Uncategorized

On message (a short guide to getting started in science communication)

With Wordpress for bloggers, Instagram for photographers, YouTube for vloggers, and the world’s loudest-ever microphone in Twitter, there’s quite simply never been a better or easier time to get started in science communication. Not only are there a whole variety of different ways of getting your message out, but social media has also democratised the process. You don’t need to be a professional communicator or even an expert user, you just have to want to give it a try: this is the age of the empowered amateur. The range of technologies also means that… Continue reading On message (a short guide to getting started in science communication)

tabijenkinsNovember 14, 2018November 12, 20187 Comments
Biochemical Society, Education & careers, Events, Science communication & public engagement, Uncategorized

The Biology Week Debate: Can artificial intelligence save the world?

‘AI will take over my job’; ‘It will end up like the terminator and end the world’; ‘It will outsmart the human race’; ‘If it makes a mistake it could be catastrophic’; ‘Can we really put that much trust into a machine?’.
There is a lot of negative association with AI, but is that because there often confusion about what artificial intelligence actually is, what it can do, and what it will be able to do in the future? Continue reading The Biology Week Debate: Can artificial intelligence save the world?

tabijenkinsOctober 18, 2018November 7, 2018Leave a comment

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