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This week's staff picks
Here’s a compilation of what our staff has been reading this week. Enjoy, and feel free to tweet us (@ASBMB) your thoughts.
This week’s staff picks
Frank Lloyd Wright, juvenile incarceration, facial-recognition software. These are just a few of the topics we're reading about/watching/listening to.
This week's staff picks
Ice-fishing huts. Music and neuroscience. Sleep studies in the Antarctic. That's just a few of the topics ASBMB staff members are reading about.
‘The five love languages’ in science mentoring
The five love languages helped Scott Aoki become a better, more present husband and father. He thinks they can also help researchers in academia.
Taking the measure of my treadmill
"As I approached age 58 in 2010, I realized I was entering a zone full of health dangers. I decided to take matters into my own hands and start exercising more frequently and more rigorously."
How volunteering enriched my life as a Ph.D. student
"From failed experiments to weak presentations, I sometimes doubt myself as a researcher. Science outreach boosts my spirits in these times of self-doubt."
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Being a mother of young children while having a career in academia
"I got pregnant with twins during the last part of my postdoctoral training. The pregnancy was planned, but the two-for-one special was a shock and wreaked havoc on my detailed financial and career plans."
When the going gets tough, I go to the gym
"I needed something to ease my mind — something that I could do for myself every single day that would relieve some of the pressure."
This week's staff picks
Here’s a compilation of what our staff has been reading this week. Enjoy, and feel free to tweet us (@ASBMB) your thoughts.
Understanding being chronically ill in STEM
"One of the first things able-bodied people should understand about their chronically ill peers, students and colleagues: Nothing is ever easy." – Katie Walsh
Thriving as a messy Other in academia
"(T)he experience of being an aspiring academic while Other is alive with tears, laughter and outrage — and yet we persevere." – Kelly Chacón
Classroom days, emergency nights
During the day, Justin Lovett attends classes as a senior studying chemistry at Stephen F. Austin State University. At night, he dons scrubs to work in a hospital emergency room.
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