Words of Wisdom #1
Starting a new blog series at Set Physics to Stun! While most of my posts are based on my own experience, observations, or creations in science and scientifi...
2024
Assessing PhD Assessments
A (total!) eclipse, travel, and hackathons have slowed down my blogging. That together with, for the first time, being asked to do the technical review of a ...
Philanthropy in the Landscape of Science Funding
A busy week of teaching and preparing for an upcoming trip to Quebec to witness the eclipse left little time for blogging. Nonetheless, I’ve been mulling ove...
Showcasing Emergence in Scientific Collaborations
This post tells a bit of my own professional story as I left life as a pure researcher, and then moves toward introducing my first managerial tool for scient...
Policy sabbaticals, a bit of Dworkin, a bit of Dweck
As I keep trying to create technical content, columns on Nature continue to interrupt me. Seems like these really are good sources of inspiration.
Scientifically Speaking: Trust, Policy, and a Dash of Pre-Prints
While I was working on a much more technical first post, Nature released a News article on a core raison-d’être of this blog: the trust of public in scientis...
We are finally starting!
This is it, I can’t believe I am finally starting this! Welcome to “Set Physics to Stun”, my blog on physics, scientific management, and other topics relevan...