
A photo of my opening slide by organiser Stephanie Bannister (@S_Bann).
Last week I was invited to speak about science communication at the MFPL retreat at Znojmo (CR). It was great to meet fans of the blog and chat with PhDs and postdocs about comics, cell/molecular biology (the MFPL does some really cool stuff), lab life and science careers. Once again, I was struck by how rife with problems academic research is, and I hope that this little talk might spark some non-traditional, yet much-needed career paths.
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My sci-fi thriller, LAZARUS, is now out on both Smashwords and Amazon.
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