I’ve recently revamped my literature review workflow since discovering Notion. Notion is an organization application that allows you to make various pages and databases. It’s kind of like your own personal wiki- you can link your pages and embed databases into another page, adding filters and sorting them using user-set properties
When I started my PhD, I was quite intimidated by the prospect of reading scientific papers. I had read some literature during my master’s research, but for my doctorate, I felt I needed to develop a much better system for reading papers and retaining what I read. Over the last few years, I’ve honed my paper reading skills and thought I’d share my own system.
It’s been a while since I started my PhD so I’ve been reflecting a lot on my first two years and wanted to share some of the most important lessons I’ve learnt so far.
Instagram can be a great tool for science communication. I’ve been sharing posts about my research on the site for a few years now (under the handle @notesfromthephysicslab), so I’ve been asked to share some of my experiences and tips on the subject.
It’s ‘autism awareness week’ – or as I like to call it ‘autism acceptance week’ – so I thought it would be appropriate to discuss autism in this week’s blog. In my last post, I spoke about why I want to write about physics more on this blog. But today I want to talk about …
I’m scared of writing about physics. There, I said it. For the past year, you might have noticed a suspicious lack of activity here on my blog and a lack of science communication posts on my Instagram page. In fact, the last time I made an explainer-style post was June of last year. I’ve been …
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of planning, scheduling and journaling. It’s the main way I tackle executive dysfunctioning and has become a crucial part of my life as a scientist and researcher. Getting the balance between organization and leaving room for flexibility, which is vital for researchers, can be a challenge. I often get asked to share the details of my planning system so I thought it was about time I wrote a blog post on it!
I often get asked how I came to be an experimental quantum physicist. The general consensus when I tell people what I do seems to be that it’s something extraordinary. I will admit that it is perhaps unusual to be an autistic woman in this field, but things are definitely changing and I hope that over time we can overcome the gatekeeping and barriers keeping minority groups from physics.