August | 2025 | Total Internal Reflection
1 post published by Brooke Morriswood during August 2025| Total Internal Reflection
1 post published by Brooke Morriswood during August 2025| Total Internal Reflection
One of the hardest things with active parenting is that you’re usually robbed of the hours when you’re at your most alert and creative.| Total Internal Reflection
Every scientist has a “moment”, an event that set them on their path. This is my moment.| Total Internal Reflection
Did you know that there are actually guidelines for determining authorship on scientific papers?| Total Internal Reflection
Group leaders nowadays bear a huge individual responsibility for raising money. But what if it was departments, and not group leaders, that were the unit of selection?| Total Internal Reflection
Why is it that I still feel so much guilt about leaving academia?| Total Internal Reflection
Done properly, mentoring engenders a lifetime commitment – on both sides.| Total Internal Reflection
There’s a reason why the chainsaw is such an apt symbol for the current assault on American science: because you can cut a tree down in minutes, but growing it back takes decades.| Total Internal Reflection
In January 2023, the journal eLife – long at the vanguard of the progressive movement in scientific publishing – took the radical step of adopting a “publish, review. curate” model. Her…| Total Internal Reflection
More than ever, I feel that the story of my generation of scientists is one of a migration out of academia and into different avenues where those scientific skills can be put to fresh use. It’…| Total Internal Reflection
Medical Communications (MedComms) might just be the best industry career option out there for scientists who most enjoy the writing/communicating/organising parts of the job, and on 22nd November 2…| Total Internal Reflection
A look back at TIR’s 9th year of operations. The year in retrospectAfter my resignation from academia in 2023 and subsequent switch to MedComms, 2024 marked my first full year in full-time employment as a medical writer. Spoiler: it’s been great; really, really great. As I’ve been saying over and over again this year, it has … Continue reading 2024: Total Internal Reflection’s year in review| Total Internal Reflection
Academia can be amazing, except when it isn’t.| Total Internal Reflection
