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The final stretch that tests every PhD Student 

Posted by , on 4 September 2026

The recent deluge of Substack and Medium articles, promising strategies and frameworks to work effectively and to complete tasks with intentionality, would have some to believe that the ‘P’ in PhD stands for “productivity” and not Philosophy. As if these neatly ...

The Experiments We Never Run

Posted by , on 1 September 2026

Somewhere, there’s a paper that will not get written. Before there’s a scientific paper, someone has to be there to ask the right question, design the right experiment, watch it ...

Show and Tell: Start Exploring Single-cell Data

Posted by , on 31 August 2026

Bioinformatics can seem intimidating, especially when you're just starting out. But you don't need to be an expert to begin exploring single-cell RNA-seq data. In this short tutorial, I walk ...

I don’t belong here: Thoughts of a first-generation academic

Posted by , on 25 August 2026

As a university student working towards my bachelor’s degree, I didn’t even know what it would mean to add “Dr.” to my name. Six months into my postdoc, I regularly ...

The little beach hopper that could

Posted by , on 6 August 2026

How Parhyale hawaiensis went from mundane beach critter to lab celebrity across biology, chemistry and even physics.

Unboxing data

Posted by , on 24 April 2026

Thanks to community campaigns (#barbarplots) and opinionated papers (Drummond & Vowler, 2011; Weisgerber et al 2015) the dynamite plunger plot (a bar plot together with an error bar) has been ...

AlphaFold protein interaction modeling tutorial and workshop

Posted by , on 8 January 2026

This video is the culmination of several years attempting to: (1) Figure out best practices for modeling protein-protein interactions; (2) Understand the outputs of programs like AlphaFold and adjacent software ...

Apply for a funded ECR place our Workshop on Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution

Posted by , on 2 October 2025

Applications are open for 10 ECR funded places at The Company of Biologists Workshop on Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution, organised byJames Hombría and Antónia Monteiro. The ...

FlyCROSS 2025–26: Call for Drosophila early career scientists

Posted by , on 1 August 2025

Do not miss this call for mentees from the Drosophila community. The Fly Board is excited to announce the second cycle of FlyCROSS (2025–2026). The goal of FlyCROSS is to ...

Event carbon calculator

Posted by , on 30 June 2025

I am excited to announce the release of our event carbon calculator, our latest resource to support the creation of sustainable events. Estimate your event’s carbon footprint in five minute ...

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