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A Microbiologist’s Guide to Infection in Movies and TV", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2026/03/27/the-next-chapter-dont-open-that-door-a-microbiologists-guide-to-infection-in-movies-and-tv/", "published_at": "2026-03-27T12:09:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50f-4606-72dd-89d3-928472173009", "title": "Actions Speak Louder Than Words: How people showing up unprompted makes a difference that words cannot convey", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2026/03/13/actions-speak-louder-than-words-how-people-showing-up-unprompted-makes-a-difference-that-words-cannot-convey/", "published_at": "2026-03-13T18:12:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50f-4606-72dd-89d3-928472363560", "title": "Holding Up a Mirror to Perfection: Why I’m finding LinkedIn can impact how I view myself", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2026/02/27/holding-up-a-mirror-to-perfection-why-im-finding-linkedin-can-impact-how-i-view-myself/", "published_at": "2026-02-27T14:28:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-9d05-7144-81ce-92c8e4a8e87f", "title": "Guest Blog by Dr Claire Walker: Can artificial intelligence pass your Genetics exam? Not this one", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2026/02/13/guest-blog-by-dr-claire-walker-can-artificial-intelligence-pass-your-genetics-exam-not-this-one/", "published_at": "2026-02-13T12:10:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-9d05-7144-81ce-92c8e59daf69", "title": "Miss Piggy is My Hero: Why we should all be a little more Muppet", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2026/02/06/miss-piggy-is-my-hero-why-we-should-all-be-a-little-more-muppet/", "published_at": "2026-02-06T16:47:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-9d05-7144-81ce-92c8e666d2f2", "title": "More Than a Piece of History, a Lot About Impact: Why I became a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2026/01/30/more-than-a-piece-of-history-a-lot-about-impact-why-i-became-a-liveryman-of-the-worshipful-company-of-plumbers/", "published_at": "2026-01-30T20:33:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-9d05-7144-81ce-92c8e6a11428", "title": "Lead WITH Us: Why making history is important, and not just about walking in a parade", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2026/01/16/lead-with-us-why-making-history-is-important-and-not-just-about-walking-in-a-parade/", "published_at": "2026-01-16T17:45:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-9d05-7144-81ce-92c8e6d45ae0", "title": "Looking Back and Looking Forward: A Girlymicro 2025 year in review and looking forward to 2026", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2026/01/09/looking-back-and-looking-forward-a-girlymicro-2025-year-in-review-and-looking-forward-to-2026/", "published_at": "2026-01-09T17:58:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-9d05-7144-81ce-92c8e714515d", "title": "Roll on 2026: Being intentional about finding my way back to my full authentic self", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/12/29/roll-on-2026-being-intentional-about-finding-my-way-back-to-my-full-authentic-self/", "published_at": "2025-12-29T16:32:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-9d05-7144-81ce-92c8e7452fdc", "title": "Merry Christmas One and All", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/12/25/merry-christmas-one-and-all-3/", "published_at": "2025-12-25T10:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51d-9d05-7144-81ce-92c8e7c17c76", "title": "Guest Blog by Julie Russell: And now for something completely different ……or is it? 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Book Review: Talking DNA editing in Upgrade by Blake Crouch", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/05/16/world-dna-day-book-review-talking-dna-editing-in-upgrade-by-blake-crouch/", "published_at": "2025-05-16T10:23:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-537a-71e6-abf1-02e96ce67450", "title": "World DNA Day Book Review: Discussing the science behind The One by John Marrs", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/05/09/world-dna-day-book-review-discussing-the-science-behind-the-one-by-john-marrs/", "published_at": "2025-05-09T09:42:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-537a-71e6-abf1-02e96da49279", "title": "Celebrating World DNA Day Part Two: The Power of DNA – Why we need to know more before sending ours away", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/05/02/celebrating-world-dna-day-part-two-the-power-of-dna-why-we-need-to-know-more-before-sending-ours-away/", "published_at": "2025-05-02T17:13:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-537a-71e6-abf1-02e96e4b0e37", "title": "Celebrating World DNA Day Part One: DNA is more than just a sequence of letters but how do we look for it?", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/04/28/celebrating-world-dna-day-part-one-dna-is-more-than-just-a-sequence-of-letters-but-how-do-we-look-for-it/", "published_at": "2025-04-28T08:02:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-537a-71e6-abf1-02e96e5eebaf", "title": "Celebrating The People That Make It Worthwhile: Taking a moment to appreciate the positive people in our lives", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/04/25/celebrating-the-people-that-make-it-worthwhile-taking-a-moment-to-appreciate-the-positive-people-in-our-lives/", "published_at": "2025-04-25T16:13:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-537a-71e6-abf1-02e96f1e9022", "title": "It Was the Best of Times. It Was the Worst of Times: 10 years on and how different the world is now", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/04/21/it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times-10-years-on-and-how-different-the-world-is-now/", "published_at": "2025-04-21T15:14:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-537a-71e6-abf1-02e96f5ce2b4", "title": "Celebrating the Hospital Detectives: Why I describe Infection Prevention and Control as the detectives within our healthcare drama", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/04/10/celebrating-the-hospital-detectives-why-i-describe-infection-prevention-and-control-as-the-detectives-within-our-healthcare-drama/", "published_at": "2025-04-10T15:51:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-537a-71e6-abf1-02e96f6f279e", "title": "Maintaining My Scientific Curiosity: A brief sojourn into the science behind crime scene investigation", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/03/31/maintaining-my-scientific-curiosity-a-brief-sojourn-into-the-science-behind-crime-scene-investigation/", "published_at": "2025-03-31T17:04:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-537a-71e6-abf1-02e97044fc62", "title": "Celebrating International Womens Day 2025: Why I love seeing more strong female scientific roles in the movies and on TV", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/03/08/celebrating-international-womens-day-2025-why-i-love-seeing-more-strong-female-scientific-roles-in-the-movies-and-on-tv/", "published_at": "2025-03-08T16:30:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-537a-71e6-abf1-02e970ceedc6", "title": "Sorry, Not Sorry: The challenges of being an anxious apologiser", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/02/28/sorry-not-sorry-the-challenges-of-being-an-anxious-apologiser/", "published_at": "2025-02-28T16:27:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-bcfd-7311-a055-a26cf9587b7a", "title": "Leadership: In the words of Wicked ‘It’s All About Popular’, or is it?", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/02/21/leadership-in-the-words-of-wicked-its-all-about-popular-or-is-it/", "published_at": "2025-02-21T14:39:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-bcfd-7311-a055-a26cfa4c6c10", "title": "Realising the World Isn’t All About You: Understanding the Spotlight Effect and how it can impact perception and response", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/02/17/realising-the-world-isnt-all-about-you-understanding-the-spotlight-effect-and-how-it-can-impact-perception-and-response/", "published_at": "2025-02-17T14:59:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-bcfd-7311-a055-a26cfae7d586", "title": "Talking About The Traitors: What can watching tell us about group think/game theory/prisoners dilemma/group decision making?", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/01/27/talking-about-the-traitors-what-can-watching-tell-us-about-group-think-game-theory-prisoners-dilemma-group-decision-making/", "published_at": "2025-01-27T08:57:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-bcfd-7311-a055-a26cfb1869a9", "title": "Tis the Season to Talk Noro: What is norovirus and why does it cause such issues?", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/01/20/tis-the-season-to-talk-noro-what-is-norovirus-and-why-does-it-cause-such-issues/", "published_at": "2025-01-20T14:12:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-bcfd-7311-a055-a26cfb4cfd0c", "title": "Going Macro on Micro: Honouring Dr Simon Doherty and collecting all the episode links in one place", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/01/13/going-macro-on-micro-honouring-dr-simon-doherty-and-collecting-all-the-episode-links-in-one-place/", "published_at": "2025-01-13T16:05:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-bcfd-7311-a055-a26cfb90c552", "title": "I’m Still Learning After All These Years: My focus in 2025 is to continue my personal development journey", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2025/01/06/im-still-learning-after-all-these-years-my-focus-in-2025-is-to-continue-my-personal-development-journey/", "published_at": "2025-01-06T08:53:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-bcfd-7311-a055-a26cfc5bee04", "title": "A Thank You to All the Cheerleaders: At the end of a tough 2024 my gratitude for all the support", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/12/30/a-thank-you-to-all-the-cheerleaders-at-the-end-of-a-tough-2024-my-gratitude-for-all-the-support/", "published_at": "2024-12-30T08:11:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-bcfd-7311-a055-a26cfd58aff8", "title": "Merry Christmas One and All", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/12/25/merry-christmas-one-and-all-2/", "published_at": "2024-12-25T09:45:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-bcfd-7311-a055-a26cfd946dae", "title": "It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Why I love the festive season and all that comes with it", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/12/20/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year-why-i-love-the-festive-season-and-all-that-comes-with-it/", "published_at": "2024-12-20T15:42:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c546-bcfd-7311-a055-a26cfe88d21c", "title": "Paralysed by Career Indecision? My top tips for career development after a PhD", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/12/13/paralysed-by-career-indecision-my-top-tips-for-career-development-after-a-phd/", "published_at": "2024-12-13T20:09:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-7eb0-7054-97e6-6480848cff42", "title": "Guest Blog by Callum Barnes: Why the university lab is different to the pathology lab (and why we should plug the gap)", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/12/06/guest-blog-by-callum-barnes-why-the-university-lab-is-different-to-the-pathology-lab-and-why-we-should-plug-the-gap/", "published_at": "2024-12-06T15:17:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-7eb0-7054-97e6-648084f1768a", "title": "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! A flash back in time to re-visit my zoological science origin story", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/12/02/lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my-a-flash-back-in-time-to-re-visit-my-zoological-science-origin-story/", "published_at": "2024-12-02T07:52:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-7eb0-7054-97e6-64808508f8ae", "title": "Let’s Talk Antimicrobial Resistance for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) 2024", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/11/23/lets-talk-antimicrobial-resistance-for-world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-waaw-2024/", "published_at": "2024-11-23T15:48:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-7eb0-7054-97e6-648085e10c90", "title": "Let’s Talk Con Fear: Talking about social anxiety at conferences and events", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/11/19/lets-talk-con-fear-talking-about-social-anxiety-at-conferences-and-events/", "published_at": "2024-11-19T14:27:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-7eb0-7054-97e6-648086b71c56", "title": "Infection Representation in Popular Culture: Why infection and infection risks, as discussed in movies and TV, may matter more than you think", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/11/11/infection-representation-in-popular-culture-why-infection-and-infection-risks-as-discussed-in-movies-and-tv-may-matter-more-than-you-think/", "published_at": "2024-11-11T09:27:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-7eb0-7054-97e6-648087b69498", "title": "Would You Let Them In? Celebrating Halloween by discussing what not to do in infection control as modelled in the Alien movies", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/11/03/would-you-let-them-in-celebrating-halloween-by-discussing-what-not-to-do-in-infection-control-as-modelled-in-the-alien-movies/", "published_at": "2024-11-03T17:37:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-7eb0-7054-97e6-64808848a9e3", "title": "Hold on Tight Its Going to Be a Bumpy Ride: The truth about my journey from trainee to consultant", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/10/25/hold-on-tight-its-going-to-be-a-bumpy-ride-the-truth-about-my-journey-from-trainee-to-consultant/", "published_at": "2024-10-25T14:04:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-7eb0-7054-97e6-648089013c2b", "title": "When is setting a goal, not a goal? When it’s an unattainable burden: Talking about making goals useful and fit for purpose", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/09/16/when-is-setting-a-goal-not-a-goal-when-its-an-unattainable-burden-talking-about-making-goals-useful-and-fit-for-purpose/", "published_at": "2024-09-16T14:19:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-7eb0-7054-97e6-648089f3107e", "title": "Environment Network 2024: Environmental risk assessment what do we need to know?", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/09/06/environment-network-2024-environmental-risk-assessment-what-do-we-need-to-know/", "published_at": "2024-09-06T13:35:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-7eb0-7054-97e6-64808ae02956", "title": "Tales of a Recovering Workaholic: Talking about the darker side of success", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/08/27/tales-of-a-recovering-workaholic-talking-about-the-darker-side-of-success/", "published_at": "2024-08-27T13:52:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c557-c07a-7389-ad18-fcc8919bf021", "title": "It’s Me. Hi. I’m the Problem, It’s Me: Why being perceived as the ‘difficult’ one may just mean you’re doing your job", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/08/14/its-me-hi-im-the-problem-its-me-why-being-perceived-as-the-difficult-one-may-just-mean-youre-doing-your-job/", "published_at": "2024-08-14T08:14:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c557-c07a-7389-ad18-fcc89284d985", "title": "Understanding the Scope of Our Influence: Why we have to stop trying to ‘fix’ everything", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/08/05/understanding-the-scope-of-our-influence-why-we-have-to-stop-trying-to-fix-everything/", "published_at": "2024-08-05T14:23:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c557-c07a-7389-ad18-fcc893652650", "title": "Tea, Pimms, Science and Planes: Why we should use new opportunities to talk science outside of classrooms", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/07/29/tea-pimms-science-and-planes-why-we-should-use-new-opportunities-to-talk-science-outside-of-classrooms/", "published_at": "2024-07-29T10:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c557-c07a-7389-ad18-fcc89464d8dc", "title": "One Step. One Day. One Moment at a Time: My top ten tips for carrying on when life feels a bit too much", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/07/17/one-step-one-day-one-moment-at-a-time-my-top-ten-tips-for-carrying-on-when-life-feels-a-bit-too-much/", "published_at": "2024-07-17T14:56:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c557-c07a-7389-ad18-fcc8946f8573", "title": "I’ve Posted About Tea Before but Have We Spoken About Cake? Why something as simple as a piece of cake can make a big difference", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/07/05/ive-posted-about-tea-before-but-have-we-spoken-about-cake-why-something-as-simple-as-a-piece-of-cake-can-make-a-big-difference/", "published_at": "2024-07-05T13:39:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c557-c07a-7389-ad18-fcc894d15628", "title": "PhD Top Tips on Managing Your Supervisors: Love em or hate em, there’s no completion without them", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/06/18/phd-top-tips-on-managing-your-supervisors-love-em-or-hate-em-theres-no-completion-without-them/", "published_at": "2024-06-18T13:48:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c557-c07a-7389-ad18-fcc895a7202c", "title": "Healthcare Science Education 2024: Embracing Your Authenticity", "url": "https://girlymicrobiologist.com/2024/06/10/healthcare-science-education-2024-embracing-your-authenticity/", "published_at": "2024-06-10T09:45:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c557-c07a-7389-ad18-fcc8965a3c38", "title": 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2026

A Journey into Infection  Control Podcasting: Sharing Infection Control Explained (ICE) created by the amazing GOSH IPC and educator teamoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
Guest Blog by Ciaran Horton: From Lincoln to the tropics (sort of) and how I landed a fully funded MScoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Guest Blog by Dr Claire Walker: When a dust mite looks like a prawn – the weird world of allergyoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Guest Blog by Niloofar Amirian: Finding My Way, An International Student’s Journey to Biomedical Scientist Registrationoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
Talking About the Taboos: Ten things I’ve gained, rather than lost, by not being able to have childrenoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2026
Guest Blog by Megan Baines: My Journey into Healthcare Scienceoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
Guest Blog By Dr Eleanor Senior: Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green Book Revieworiginal ↗
31 Jul 2026
Guest Blog by Professor Lena Ciric: Why is asking for what I need at work so difficult? Growing into the leader that my job title tells me I am…original ↗
24 Jul 2026
It’s OK to Mourn the Small Stuff Before You Move On: How riding the emotional wave has benefits in developing who you areoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2026
How to Review a Scientific Paper: Top tips to avoid becoming like the meme of reviewer 2original ↗
10 Jul 2026
Heat Delays Programmingoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2026
Guest Blog from Anthony De Souza: 2015 Ebola Response Deployment to Sierra Leone – A Personal Reflectionoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2026
Everyone Keeps Saying the E Word: Why there are so many news reports talking about Ebola, and why we should pay attentionoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2026
Cruise Ship Outbreaks and How Disney Cruise Line Changed My Mind on Cruise Infection Risks: What can infection control on cruise ships look like?original ↗
1 Jun 2026
An Unusual Cause for Concern? A Hantavirus outbreak associated with a cruise shiporiginal ↗
26 May 2026
Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone to Participate in Pints of Knowledge: Why it’s important to try things that scare youoriginal ↗
8 May 2026
The Pygmalion Effect: Why choosing who we have in our lives mattersoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2026
Talking About Tiara Syndrome: Why you may be waiting some time for anyone to give you the crown you deserveoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2026
The Next Chapter: Don’t Open That Door! A Microbiologist’s Guide to Infection in Movies and TVoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2026
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: How people showing up unprompted makes a difference that words cannot conveyoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2026
Holding Up a Mirror to Perfection: Why I’m finding LinkedIn can impact how I view myselforiginal ↗
27 Feb 2026
Guest Blog by Dr Claire Walker: Can artificial intelligence pass your Genetics exam? Not this oneoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2026
Miss Piggy is My Hero: Why we should all be a little more Muppetoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2026
More Than a Piece of History, a Lot About Impact: Why I became a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Plumbersoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2026
Lead WITH Us: Why making history is important, and not just about walking in a paradeoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2026
Looking Back and Looking Forward: A Girlymicro 2025 year in review and looking forward to 2026original ↗
9 Jan 2026

2025

Roll on 2026: Being intentional about finding my way back to my full authentic selforiginal ↗
29 Dec 2025
Merry Christmas One and Alloriginal ↗
25 Dec 2025
Guest Blog by Julie Russell: And now for something completely different ……or is it? A microbiologists guide to tattoosoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2025
My Journey Into Self Publishing: What I’ve learnt getting my first book out thereoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2025
Environment Network 2025: Investigating Environmental Outbreaksoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2025
Guest Book Review: “It Shouldn’t Happen to a PhD Student” by Professor Elaine Cloutman-Greenoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2025
Halloween 2025: Let’s talk all things vampirism and infectionoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2025
Marking the Fifth Anniversary of the Girlymicrobiologist Blog by Launching My First Book – It Shouldn’t Happen to a PhD Student: How to thrive, not just survive, during your PhDoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2025
A Delay to Our Scheduled Programmingoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2025
A Secret Project: Calling everyone thinking about or undertaking a PhDoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2025
Guest Blog by Dr Shayda Karimi: Creativity in scienceoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2025
Guest Blog: Co-creation made by students for students: deconstructing immunological techniques-ELISAoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2025
Guest Blog by Callum Barnes: Clinical simulation and virtual reality as a future tool to train biomedical scientistsoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2025
Marking my 250th blog post: Taking some time to reflect on Girlymicrooriginal ↗
1 Aug 2025
Guest Blog by Kate Rennie: What am I growing in my kitchen… a gluten free sourdough journey through the eyes of an IPC nurseoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2025
Guest Blog by Dr Claire Walker: Microbial Culture – An Immunologist’s Side Project Gone Wildoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2025
Candidozyma auris the New Kid on the Fungal Block: What is it and why should we care?original ↗
11 Jul 2025
Guest Blog by Dr Sam Watkins: The wild world of mycotoxins, maybe not such a fun-gioriginal ↗
4 Jul 2025
Guest Blog from Anthony De Souza: What We Don’t Always Say – A Reflection on Microaggressionsoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2025
The World Needs More Allies: How can we support each other better to feel comfortable to be ourselves?original ↗
20 Jun 2025
Walking Laps for Mental Health: How choosing to step away from your desk may be a great way to safeguard your well-beingoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2025
Guest Blog Dr Claire Walker: The Quest for Answers – Exome Sequencing and the Hunt for New Genetic Diseasesoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2025
Finding the Positives: Ten reasons why I am still grateful, even for the bad daysoriginal ↗
30 May 2025
Practicing My ‘It’s Lovely to be Considered Face’: Why we should celebrate all the moments, not just the successesoriginal ↗
23 May 2025
World DNA Day 2025 Blog Post Compilation: How do we look for DNA and how might changing it change lives?original ↗
20 May 2025
World DNA Day Book Review: Talking DNA editing in Upgrade by Blake Crouchoriginal ↗
16 May 2025
World DNA Day Book Review: Discussing the science behind The One by John Marrsoriginal ↗
9 May 2025
Celebrating World DNA Day Part Two: The Power of DNA – Why we need to know more before sending ours awayoriginal ↗
2 May 2025
Celebrating World DNA Day Part One: DNA is more than just a sequence of letters but how do we look for it?original ↗
28 Apr 2025
Celebrating The People That Make It Worthwhile: Taking a moment to appreciate the positive people in our livesoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2025
It Was the Best of Times. It Was the Worst of Times: 10 years on and how different the world is noworiginal ↗
21 Apr 2025
Celebrating the Hospital Detectives: Why I describe Infection Prevention and Control as the detectives within our healthcare dramaoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2025
Maintaining My Scientific Curiosity: A brief sojourn into the science behind crime scene investigationoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2025
Celebrating International Womens Day 2025: Why I love seeing more strong female scientific roles in the movies and on TVoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2025
Sorry, Not Sorry: The challenges of being an anxious apologiseroriginal ↗
28 Feb 2025
Leadership: In the words of Wicked ‘It’s All About Popular’, or is it?original ↗
21 Feb 2025
Realising the World Isn’t All About You: Understanding the Spotlight Effect and how it can impact perception and responseoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2025
Talking About The Traitors: What can watching tell us about group think/game theory/prisoners dilemma/group decision making?original ↗
27 Jan 2025
Tis the Season to Talk Noro: What is norovirus and why does it cause such issues?original ↗
20 Jan 2025
Going Macro on Micro: Honouring Dr Simon Doherty and collecting all the episode links in one placeoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2025
I’m Still Learning After All These Years: My focus in 2025 is to continue my personal development journeyoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2025

2024

A Thank You to All the Cheerleaders: At the end of a tough 2024 my gratitude for all the supportoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2024
Merry Christmas One and Alloriginal ↗
25 Dec 2024
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Why I love the festive season and all that comes with itoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2024
Paralysed by Career Indecision? My top tips for career development after a PhDoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2024
Guest Blog by Callum Barnes: Why the university lab is different to the pathology lab (and why we should plug the gap)original ↗
6 Dec 2024
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! A flash back in time to re-visit my zoological science origin storyoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2024
Let’s Talk Antimicrobial Resistance for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) 2024original ↗
23 Nov 2024
Let’s Talk Con Fear: Talking about social anxiety at conferences and eventsoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2024
Infection Representation in Popular Culture: Why infection and infection risks, as discussed in movies and TV, may matter more than you thinkoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2024
Would You Let Them In? Celebrating Halloween by discussing what not to do in infection control as modelled in the Alien moviesoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2024
Hold on Tight Its Going to Be a Bumpy Ride: The truth about my journey from trainee to consultantoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2024
When is setting a goal, not a goal? When it’s an unattainable burden: Talking about making goals useful and fit for purposeoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2024
Environment Network 2024: Environmental risk assessment what do we need to know?original ↗
6 Sept 2024
Tales of a Recovering Workaholic: Talking about the darker side of successoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2024
It’s Me. Hi. I’m the Problem, It’s Me: Why being perceived as the ‘difficult’ one may just mean you’re doing your joboriginal ↗
14 Aug 2024
Understanding the Scope of Our Influence: Why we have to stop trying to ‘fix’ everythingoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2024
Tea, Pimms, Science and Planes: Why we should use new opportunities to talk science outside of classroomsoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2024
One Step. One Day. One Moment at a Time: My top ten tips for carrying on when life feels a bit too muchoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2024
I’ve Posted About Tea Before but Have We Spoken About Cake? Why something as simple as a piece of cake can make a big differenceoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2024
PhD Top Tips on Managing Your Supervisors: Love em or hate em, there’s no completion without themoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2024
Healthcare Science Education 2024: Embracing Your Authenticityoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2024
Don’t Hang on Too Tightly: Having enough faith in yourself to know there will always be another ideaoriginal ↗
31 May 2024
Celebrating my 200th Post: Learning to love science blogging and the do’s and don’ts I’ve picked up along the wayoriginal ↗
30 May 2024
PhD Top Tips: What do you need to think about when applying for a PhD?original ↗
17 May 2024
We Lift by Raising Others: Why we should all get our nomination heads onoriginal ↗
3 May 2024
Beware the Lure of the Anxiety Rabbit Hole: Having the self-awareness to recognise when your thinking lacks clarityoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2024
Reputation is Everything: Why reputation matters & how reputational attacks can create shock wavesoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2024
Greetings from the Laziest Girl on the Internet: Living with a mind that won’t stop in a body that doesn’t want to beginoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2024
Book Review: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou – talking science and the Theranos scandaloriginal ↗
1 Apr 2024
Stepping Into Leadership: What becoming a senior leader actually meansoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2024
Guest Blog from Dr Claire Walker: Simulating Success – Enhancing Biomedical Science Education through Clinical Simulationoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2024
Handling Criticism with Grace: Top tips for responding to reviewers’ commentsoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2024
One Year On: What has making professor actually meant for my day to dayoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2024
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