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By Anny Gano, Science Bard. Note: hover over bolded text to see definitions (or, if on mobile, scroll to the bottom). Graduate school is a little bit like a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. You have an inscrutable Dungeon Master (your advisor) who guides you through the trials and tribulations of your adventures, your stalwart party…
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Piece originally written for BiteSizeNeuro‘s grand opening and published here. Tales of the Mocktails I recently got back from a conference for scientists who study alcohol addiction. Every year, we meet up for 5 days of talks and presentations where we share our latest research and catch up with each other’s science lives and personal…
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by Anny Gano, originally published November 30, 2020, on the CGS Speaks blog at MUSC. 1 In my last blog post, I nerded out over some useful options that PubMed can provide to the well-informed user looking for new science literature. Now that you’ve become a master of finding papers when you already know what you’re looking for,…
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by Anny Gano, originally published October 30, 2020, on the CGS Speaks blog at MUSC. 1 In March, our laboratory entered a quiescent period to help slow the spread of coronavirus. We were fortunate enough to be allowed to resume our lab work again pretty quickly after a period of working from home. Though I can’t say I…
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by Anny Gano, originally published April 29, 2020, on the CGS Speaks blog at MUSC. 1 If you are a research scientist like me, there is a good chance that you may also be working partially or fully from home because of COVID-19 and dealing with a whole slew of new challenges, both personal and professional. I know…
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by Anny Gano, originally published March 9, 2021, on the CGS Speaks blog at MUSC. 1 Impostor syndrome is the chronic illness of academia. I guess each profession has its Thing. I’ve heard that in the medical field, doctors in training go through “medical student disease” —a type of hypochondria where the trainees become convinced that they have…
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by Anny Gano, originally published March 13, 2020, on the CGS Speaks blog at MUSC. 1 The many excellent tools available to a scientist today do not all come from Thermo Fisher Scientific or live on a lab bench. An ever-expanding list of apps and programs are designed to make our science lives easier than ever.…
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The year is 1997. I am not really thinking about my publication record or citation index yet because I am a kid. Being a kid is awesome. The thing I really want to do is get in my grandparents’ car and take the 20 minute drive out of town and into the countryside. Grandpa will…