Over the summer I had a pleasure of participating in one of the most inspiring ventures in academia. I took part in my first summer school during the first year of my PhD journey. It has also been the first year after lockdowns, so one could freely travel and scientific […]
Yearly Archives: 2022
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A short PhD student journey If we look at people’s curriculum vitae (CV) /résumés and career paths, we might think: Wow…their life runs smoothly. However, what we don’t see, and what, of course, no one usually mentions, are the many mistakes and failures. Let’s just dive right into one chapter […]
Open science. This term has been thrown around quite a lot lately. You have seen that hashtag on Twitter. But there is something odd about it, isn’t it? What is “open science”? “Open” as in open-minded, seeking new ideas? “Open” as in transparent, not lying, not hiding any failed experiments? […]
First of all, I am no philosopher, I only have some notions and I will (mostly) rely on these. Now, why am I talking about philosophy all of a sudden? Because I will question the concept of academic freedom, which overlaps greatly with the concept of freedom, unsurprisingly. Freedom has […]
We live in a simulated world, carefully created from scratch by our own brains. The “scratch” consists of neural activity influenced by our sensory input. Have you ever imagined how a mouse perceives the world? What does a rainbow look like for a mouse? While the actual rainbow seems to […]
Some questions in science are grandiose and tackle issues of great social impact, like: how can we cure cancer? Others are less flamboyant, but not necessarily less important. For example, a question that is the focus of my PhD is how neurons code and relay the acoustic information. Literature describes […]