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Too busy to read a long blog post? Too impatient to wait for the next long long post? This is the section which you have been looking for.

One short note before you start: This article is an experiment. I describe my work using only the 1000 most commonly used words in English. You want to see more of this? Follow #SciCommChall on Twitter! You want to give it a try yourself? Use this editor: http://splasho.com/upgoer5/. By the […]

Marrying in Space

August 27, 2018 in General / Short stories / The Archive by Valentin Ludwig (updated 1988 days ago)

“Why the hell did you come here???” I often hear for 11 years. Yes. Why did I leave Martinique, a tropical French island with a minimal winter temperature of 20°C … to go to Rimouski (Québec, Canada) where it is snowing 5 months a year with a mean winter temperature […]

From the Tropics to the Arctic: an Eternal Story!

August 1, 2018 in Getting out there / Life as PhD student / Short stories / The Archive by Quentin Duboc (updated 1988 days ago)

Last Sunday July 15th was Arctic Sea Ice Day, which is why we would like to tell you today a little bit about the importance of sea ice. Isn’t sea ice just frozen seawater? Sure, that’s totally true, but it is frozen water with a global significance. Sea ice is […]

Why Do We Care So Much About Sea Ice?

July 18, 2018 in Science for everyone / Short stories / The Archive by Lina Madaj (updated 1988 days ago)

Monday again! Wohoo! New week, new post! …. No? No post? Again?! That’s fine, just wait a little longer… until Tuesday… Still no post?! Does that sound familiar to you? Yes, we are aware that there sometimes are post-less Mondays… but don’t worry, this ain’t one of them. This is […]

Again no Monday – Post?!? =(

July 2, 2018 in Life as PhD student / Short stories / The Archive by Lina Madaj (updated 1988 days ago)

Hello out there! Today, I want to open a short article series. The purpose is to show you who we actually are. Just the stereotype natural scientist without family, friends or social life but with a pronounced inclination for misanthropy and nerdiness? Or maybe just a normal person with an […]

Behind the blog: Valentin

May 22, 2018 in Life as PhD student / Short stories / The Archive by Valentin Ludwig (updated 1988 days ago)

Did you think scientific conferences are only for established researchers? Or for PhD students that are about to finish and really have something to present? But not for you, who might not even think about their first publication because you’re still missing some additional data and the final “amazing” conclusion? […]

The Motivational Effect of a Scientific Conference

April 17, 2018 in Life as PhD student / Short stories / The Archive by Lina Madaj (updated 1841 days ago)

Sea Ice and the French region of Brittany have several common points!

Brittany, pancakes and sea ice – common points!

April 9, 2018 in Short stories / The Archive by Damien Ringeisen (updated 1988 days ago)

We recently finished our second retreat of second cohort PhDs. For four days we called the beautiful but these days extremely windy island of Helgoland our home, where we learned a lot about, yes you guessed right, science communication (SciComm as the insiders say). This is one of the reasons […]

Windy Island Get-Away

March 27, 2018 in Short stories / The Archive by Lina Madaj (updated 1988 days ago)

Dear reader, today I want to tell you about an opportunity to find out what I am actually doing when I am not writing blog posts. The event is called ‘Science goes PUBlic’ and the concept is plain and simple: If you want to tell people about science, go where […]

Don’t miss it: Science goes PUBlic in Bremen

March 26, 2018 in Science for everyone / Short stories / The Archive by Valentin Ludwig (updated 1988 days ago)