October | 2025 | Total Internal Reflection
1 post published by Brooke Morriswood during October 2025| Total Internal Reflection
1 post published by Brooke Morriswood during October 2025| Total Internal Reflection
I’m a white, cisgendered, heterosexual male. I was born in an affluent Western country and lucky enough to get an elite education. I have all the attendant privileges and instinctive reassurance th…| Total Internal Reflection
1 post published by Brooke Morriswood during February 2024| 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
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
Academia can be amazing, except when it isn’t.| Total Internal Reflection
