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Ever want to know what it’s like to have a severe case of burnout? Just read this. It’s a description of what my first year as a Visiting Assistant Professor was like. I wrote it in airports on the way back to and from a job interview, during my students finals week. It’s pretty unfiltered description of what it was like.
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A description of how we set up a fund to support students and avocational scientists attending science meetings. Importantly, this grant is set up to act during registration, rather than as a reimbursement, like one would get from a University. The problems with that are fairly obvious!
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I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder about a decade ago. I have had my ups and downs with them, though they’re certainly always with me. I went through a period of abnormally high anxiety, culminating in seeking help from therapists again. I wrote this post as a way to begin processing both the past and current situation as it is filtered through the disorders. It also has a few suggestions at the end about what to do (Seek help!) if you too struggle with these disorders.
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I didn’t write this one. Adriane Lam summarized a paper that Chris Lowery published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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My dad is a radiation physicist who works on cancer treatment. I’m a climate scientist who uses a fossil group that can be used to find oil reserves. There’s an interesting duality to both those types of science; both can be used for positive or negative. This post for the Cabot Institute explores that duality.