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Top 5 Tips On How To Choose An Online Course
Posted On September 27, 2019

**In Collaboration**  Online courses can be incredibly beneficial for your future career. Whether you have recently graduated and are looking for a course that will complement your studies or you are …

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Featured Day in the Life of: Hajer, graduate student using brain imaging technology to understand neurodevelopmental disorders
September 24, 2019

Hi everyone, I’m Hajer Nakua, a second-year graduate student at the University of Toronto, Canada. My work uses brain imaging technology (such as MRI) to understand the relationship between behavioural …


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Featured ‘Day in the life of’: Daisy, Postdoc at Harvard Medical School.
July 18, 2019

I'm Daisy Shu, a postdoc at Harvard Medical School, studying the role of mitochondria and cellular metabolism in retinal eye diseases. I just moved to Boston from Sydney for my …


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Featured ‘Day in the life of’: Vanessa, a PhD student researching Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine in NYC
April 29, 2018

I study the role of metabotropic glutamate receptors in neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. My lab employs a new cutting edge tool that allows for specific spatiotemporal control …


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Featured ‘Day in the life of’: Daniella, Conservation biologist PhD student researching black-cockatoos.
April 22, 2018

Hi, I’m Daniella. I’m a conservation biologist and all-round nature fanatic, currently doing a PhD on endangered black-cockatoos in south-eastern Australia. My project is in the field of bioacoustics, which …


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The slump.
March 15, 2018

When I first started my PhD two years ago, I heard whispers about a so called “PhD slump”. About how in the middle of the PhD journey people want to …


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The Fin-Blog; Valentine’s Day Special
February 13, 2018

It appears the Beyonce of the sea has yet to make her appearance because it’s simply not about just putting a ring on it in the underwater world.  Here are …


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End of year rush: Tips for productivity
December 13, 2017

If you are anything like me, you would have had many goals for how much work would get done this year. And if you are even more like me, now …


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Featured ‘Day in the life of’: Amy, a PhD student investigating the impacts of climate change on food and nutrition, and a yoga teacher on the side.
December 1, 2017

An Aussie PhD student (yoga teacher on the side) investigating the impacts of climate change on food and nutrition security and non-communicable diseases in Vanuatu currently doing a professional development stint (aka …


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Featured ‘Day in the life of’: Katelyn, masters student researching contaminants (specifically mercury) in arctic breeding shorebirds
November 19, 2017

Hey there! This is Katelyn here, taking over the guest blog this week. I originally hail from the urban soup of southern Ontario, Canada. But I’m currently completing my Master’s …