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Email is like democracy: the worst form of communication, except for all the others. With over sixty thousand unread messages […]
These are the main points of a 5min talk on “leadership in science” I gave in 2019. I happened at […]
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This advice is aimed at masters and PhD students in STEM, who are writing their first few reports and papers […]
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Hi! As I’ve managed to keep my kid alive for nearly a year and a half now, I thought I’d […]
My mother is a playwright, actor, theatre director and poet, working in Portugal for over thirty years. Her name is […]
I come from Portugal, and I get asked a lot what to do and see in a short visit.  Here […]
Zopf is a kind of fluffy sweet braided bread that the Swiss eat on weekends. (It probably shares its origins […]
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I often have master students asking me for advice in finding a PhD position. I tried to make  a list […]