Dear Kim, So, you survived 2019, your first year of PhD! Well done, “future you” is proud! Looking back on your 2019 posts I can’t help but want to give you a hug, there were so many challenges you blogged about that many students related t…

  Museums are some of my favourite spaces, I find myself drawn to them, wherever I go, whether I am on holiday or on a trip for work, I always end up wondering into one. A year ago, the world watched in horror as the Museu Nacional, the largest and old…

Can you believe we are in the last quarter? We are on the verge of saying goodbye to 2019 and welcoming 2020. This is it, the final stretch, but many people (including myself) are dragging themselves toward the finish line. According to the Merriam Web…

  For some researchers and students, this is just another form, more admin and more work to get through before being able to conduct the research work. To me, however, as a person of colour, an African and a woman (all demographics of which have been e…

  “You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise.”- Maya Angelou When my editor approached us about writing a post for Women’s month, I was caught off guard…

I recently had a nerve-wracking experience, my very first manuscript was finally ready to be submitted to a journal but when it came time to press the “submit” button, I froze. I had been working on this manuscript since my honours year in 2015, it has…

In 2016, I found myself in the beautiful country of Kenya alongside a team of researchers, curators and technicians from South Africa. We were in Kenya to attend a workshop titled: Developing a collaborative pan- African approach between partner instit…

Science communication or “scicomm” as it is termed, is becoming an increasingly important tool in the skills repertoire of scientists. This is in part due to the need to combat “fake news”, pseudoscience and misinformation but also in part because it i…

I first came across the term “impostor syndrome” about a year or two ago while skimming through my Twitter feed. A fellow #WomanInSTEM had posted about a personal experience and I read on in amazement. She was a senior in my field and someone I greatly…