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August 03, 2017

Which Piece of Lab Equipment are You? Hilarious Quiz!

Dear scientists, we dare you not to laugh when you see your result of this hilarious summer quiz we created for you!

Find out how your habits in and outside of the lab reflect your personality - are you a spinning centrifuge, the wildcard of the bunch or a clever qPCR cycler,...

May 17, 2016

Good Science That is Not Read is Inexistent Science

Nowadays, making and publishing good science just isn’t enough if you want to stand out and increase the impact of your hard work. Thankfully there are tools available online that will help you do just that. Interested in improving your chances of landing collaborators,...

March 17, 2016

Promote Your Research on Social Media. It Works!

I have recently read the 2014 Nature paper on which social media do scientists use and why do they use it. In the meantime a lot has changed, ResearchGate no longer has 4.5 million users, but 8 million. That does not seem much compared to 1.5 billion users Facebook has, but is...

November 05, 2015

Can Scientists Become Good Entrepreneurs?

According to, by now quite a few years old, paper version of Random house Webster's Unabridged dictionary, Second edition, entrepreneur is a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.

October 13, 2015

Build Your Own BIO Lab

What is DIY biology and how it can help you build your own lab?

August 11, 2015

Are You a Scientist or a Researcher?

Is there a difference between scientists and researchers? Is one an occupation and the other a mission or lifestyle? Does it really matter in the end?

July 30, 2015

Thinking of Becoming Your Own Boss? Here's How You Start in 9 Steps

Budgets for science and academic research are being cut all around the world and many people are thinking about alternative careers.

July 16, 2015

"Publish or Perish" – Why Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research

More and more papers are retracted each year. In a reproducibility study Bayer was able to repeat only 14 out of 67 drug target research experiments from landmark papers. Amgen set out to repeat 53 key discoveries in the field of cancer and succeeded in only 6.

May 28, 2015

INTERVIEW: Moving Forward with Your Career and Keeping the Pace with the Digital Age

Meet Dr Afif Abdel Nour, Field Application Scientist for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Bio Rad Laboratories

May 21, 2015

INTERVIEW: Building a Successful and Dynamic Career - From Marine Biology and Genotyping to Latest Advances in NGS

Meet Michael Rhodes, Nanostring.

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