What you need to know: Nobel Prize Winners 2018
This October, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 2018 Nobel Prizes. This years’ prizes in particular show how much of an impact basic science can have on medicine – investigating the how and why can give us insights into treatments. Continue reading What you need to know: Nobel Prize Winners 2018
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
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
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)
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