Dr Matthias Rillig gives advice for PhD students, postdocs and group leaders on how to navigate the various challenges that academia presents.
Addressing weaknesses and limitations in your science will reassure potential funders, use these three questions to address rigour and reproducibility concerns in your grant proposal.
“To be accessible to the general population, documents should have a reading ability requirement of year 7.” Improve your science communications with the general public with the Australian Government Style Manual.
The numerous benefits to making your science open access and the global movement to improve society’s access to science.
Lots of invertebrates feed on slime molds; lots of slime molds feed on other organisms. Sounds gross but the macro photos are beautiful.
A book review exploring the ‘make do and mend’ approach to science experiments – using objects to multiple ends, repurposing materials and being inventive with what’s on hand.
Animations are an invaluable data/concept visualisation tool in your science communications. Learn more about how cartoons and animation help communicate your science and ideas.
Rejection is a part of life, especially for scientists, so you need to learn how to deal with it!
At some stage you will likely need to conduct a literature review – but did you know there are different types? Each has its own specific methodology that should be followed for the review to be considered robust.
