From the very beginning, right after deciding to study science, the academic career seems to be fixed: bachelor’s, master’s, PhD, and probably a series of post-docs afterwards. But this path is not made for everyone. It’s a field, full of ups and downs, that often results in high frustration levels. Read more…
So much of research tends to be a sort of chaotic self-directed learning experience, little nuggets of information coming from many different resources, sometimes with no way to tie them all together. Our lives today are much improved by utility tools and software that go some way in alleviating this Read more…
I love science. I really love science (and particularly neuroscience), humanity’s great cultural endeavor to understand the world and ourselves. Unfortunately, science is broken. It is broken in many ways, not only in the way it distributes funding, its bizarre publishing scheme, or the way scientists are employed. It is Read more…
Ever been curious to know a little more about what your friends and colleagues in Tübingen work on, what secrets they have uncovered while living here, and what inspired them to come and work here in the first place? Then read on: three of Tübingen’s finest doctoral students were kind Read more…
If you are a neuroscientist, whether your day-to-day involves running rats through a radial arm maze or changing the medium in your stem cells, you might not have had much experience programming. If you happen to work in genetics, you might have brought some data to a statistically or computationally inclined Read more…
At 10 am, a bus filled with 50 people pulled away from the main train station of the small Swäbisch town, Tübingen. The bus was headed for the outskirts of the Black Forest, or the Schwarzwald, if you care for German translations. It’s also interesting to note that on the Read more…
The leaves wore the sun like a dress, elegant and fitting. Their crisp outlines were recreated by the water, or perhaps a painter, intricately melding the warm autumn palate together. I let my fingers drag like tiny props off the side of the boat and watched the designs that formed, with Read more…
At some point, after slaving away, beating back the failures, and tasting the sweet success of a scientific discovery, we must ask ourselves, ‘How do I present this to other people?’ I’m referring to the visual representation of data. The current trend in science seems to be that we compile our western Read more…
Though most people believe that it is the supervisor’s position to ask the questions, my personal experience has taught me that you (the PhD student) have a lot to ask as well. A PhD project is the result of successful teamwork between at least two individuals, you and the supervisor, Read more…