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The billion-pound misunderstanding

20 May 2026
Tags: peer review academic life critique critical thinking publishing

On peer review, academic time and a calculation that does not add up

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Small mercies

18 May 2026
Tags: humorous stories critique academic life metric system

A quote, a thought, and a link worth following

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A moment of recognition

8 April 2026
Tags: humorous stories academic life education & teaching student fails

It was heart-breaking to fail the student. But there was nothing else I could do.

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When "too good to be true" actually isn't

25 March 2026
Tags: academic life lab equipment education & teaching BioGrad Novacyt

The RT-qPCR donation story

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The great bottle lid debate

25 February 2026
Tags: academic life humorous stories critical thinking aseptic technique microbiology

Face up or face down – that is the question!

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The art of publishing a paper

4 February 2026
Tags: research & publishing publication education & teaching academic life peer review

What publishing a scientific paper actually means: a reality check

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When theory overrides data

7 January 2026
Tags: academic life research & publishing critique reviewer quality editorial oversight

How the criticism of one figure out of six became grounds for rejecting an entire manuscript as 'artifactual'.

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When students take "Cut and Paste" too literally

17 December 2025
Tags: education & teaching academic life humorous stories student fails learning

Why even today students need to experience work in a lab, and not in a virtual reality environment

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Microbiology practical 2025

3 December 2025
Tags: education & teaching humorous stories student fails critical thinking academic life

First year students in the microbiology lab

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On narrow minds and broad science

26 November 2025
Tags: academic life critical thinking critique model organisms echo chamber

In defense of model organisms such as E. coli

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"In It Goes!"

5 November 2025
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Ethanol precipitation of a 10 L ligation reaction

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New ways to navigate the literature landscape

15 October 2025
Tags: research & publishing academic life software AI critique publishing

A way to visualise connections between papers

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Cells don't care about your pomodoro timer

8 October 2025
Tags: academic life time management pomodoro technique practical lab science

All those time management gurus should spend time in a research lab with active experiments

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Dance of Destruction: A PAT testing adventure

9 September 2025
Tags: academic life practical lab science humorous stories sample preservation fails

In the grand theater of bureaucratic safety, the show must always go on.

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