Life after Science

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In our current episode our Olya describes the challenges of being a Bully and the results of the “Bharath experiment”. We also discuss the term “Frenemies” in Science and scientific collaborations. Special greetings to our listeners in Russia

Answering your (slightly rephrased) question: What do you tell your family you actually do as a job? Do your friends outside of academia ask you about it? How do you deal with a small talk at the party when it comes to the profession questions?

Topic: Extra hours vs productive research work. This time we discussed all aspects to work extra unpaid hours and work efficiency, which ended up in a heated discussion…

Topic: Interviews in science and in industry On the occasion that one of us had an interview, we took the time to talk about interviews in Science and in Industry.We got some help on this from our special guest with 10 years of experience in industry.

Topic: How we miss our favorite weird food from all around the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa_salad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirozhki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takoyaki Oldboy moviehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/Oldboy eating alive octopus episodehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6sJU30NVPQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverwurst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A2t%C3%A9 – Pâté https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_roll – Loempia https://www.febo.nl/ Tacos in Tijuana, Mexico https://www.seriouseats.com/2012/08/where-to-get-fish-tacos-and-tostadas-in-tijuana-and-ensenada-mexico-mexican-food.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York-style_pizza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saarbr%C3%BCcken – Saarbrücken

Topic: The (not so) free food concept applied to separate students from employees.

Topic: What can make the defense procedure less of a torture?

Topic of part Two: Harassment and bullying in science. What to do? Institutional betrayalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_betrayal Impact factorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor Stop exploitation of foreign postdocs in the United States https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07479-7 #scientificparoleofficer