Category: Blogs
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Destination Unknown – my journey through the plankton world
Aditee Mitra writes about her research which started with protozooplankton and led her to the mixoplankton paradigm January 2021 During my PhD years when I was modelling the, then rather neglected, protozooplankton community little did I know what was waiting behind the curtains for me. It was while trawling the literature for data for ciliates,…
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Written communication is “paper” in science
Maira Maselli writes about scientific publications and what she learned about communication from her recent experiences.
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Scientific engagement to my family: sounds kind of Greek to them?
Kostas Anestis, ESR1, seeking suggestions September 2020 How to talk about your studies? A situation many of you might have also faced. Since I started studying biology, I have always been trying to find a way to talk to my Greek family about what I was studying and my future career plans. Many of my…
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A year to remember!
June 2020 Guilherme Ferreira, MixITiN’s ESR3, reporting from Barcelona, Spain Slightly more than one year has passed since I last communicated with you through my previous post and so many things happened since that time… As a starter, and as a means to follow up on the topic of my previous post, I should tell…
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How to become a protist nerd
Lisa Schneider, MixITiN ESR11, unveils her tools to becoming a protist nerd. June 2020 When I started my PhD 2 years ago, I was completely new to the world of plankton, protist physiology, photosynthesis and marine ecology. I thought I knew something but that quickly turned out to be wrong. And now 2 years later…
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Home-made plankton research under the Covid-19 scenario
Claudia Traboni, MixITiN ESR9, talks about the new “normal” May 2020 Dear readers, we all know how it feels to stay home for weeks or even months during these hard times due to the outbreak of the Covid-19. Nevertheless, for those who have had the chance to work from home there are some funny anecdotes.…
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Spring boarding into science communication
Nikola Medić, MixITiN ESR2, talks about his experiences of communicating his research to various audiences April 2020 As a researcher my typical working day includes a range of different tasks – reviewing the scientific literature, checking if my mixoplankton cultures are alive and happy and free of “aliens” (=bacterial infestation), working in the laboratory with…
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Team MixITiN celebrates British Science Week 2020
Andreas Norlin, MixITiN ESR6, reports on his experience of “Being A Marine Scientist” with Ysgol Dewi Sant pupils March 2020 This week it is the British Science Week; this is an annual event held across UK promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics to the broader public. This is an opportunity for those of us working…
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CRETE: A good slice of Greece
Mena Romano, ESR5, on life as a MixITiN ESR in Creta February 2020 Thanks to the MixITiN experience I have the opportunity to conduct my PhD in Crete (Greece). The history of Crete goes back many millennia, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. After the Minoan civilization was devastated, Crete developed an Ancient Greek-influenced…
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Marinebiologists from MixITiN adventures in the Red Sea
6 February 2020 Being an ESR in an international project gives us the opportunity to meet people we would probably not have met otherwise. In MixITiN we ESRs have built a good relationship among us, surpassing borders, which is why a few of us decided to go on a vacation together.Kostas, Joost, Andreas, Maira and…
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