Purpose – finding your place in the world #MotivationMonday
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by Stewart Barker
3y ago
Hey Everyone, hope you’re all well, I think I’ve been bitten by the writing bug again! It makes a nice change. As much as I have loved re-discovering my inner creativity through my photography, it is nice to once again be expressing myself with words, as opposed to imagery. On what is frankly a miserable, grey, cold and rainy Monday here in the UK, we all know that despondent feeling of returning to work after a weekend that seemingly evaporated into thin-air. At the moment, this feeling is mixed with a number of others. Anxiety creeps in, my contract at work is up in less than two months now ..read more
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My life post-science
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by Stewart Barker
3y ago
Hey everyone. Long time no blog. So yeah, basically, my mind has now shifted to a post-science state. I’ve finally come to terms with my new reality. It seems after leaving my PhD last December, I have also left science. I’m not sure there is a place for me in the field, not one where I could balance job satisfaction with my own health and a good work life balance. It’s hard letting go of something that was all-consuming for several years of my life. I still have regrets, and i’m still not sure of my place in the world. It might seem a little dramatic to some of you, but science really was all ..read more
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Putting the ‘Media’ in ‘Academia’
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by Stewart Barker
3y ago
Microbe Stew I’m writing this post on WordPress. Some of you will see it directly via the WordPress reader, but chances are most of you will be drawn here via social media – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and so on… The relevance of this? Social media is important to academia (apologies for the rather cliched title!). View original post 1,340 more words ..read more
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PhD – Fight or Flight
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by Stewart Barker
3y ago
Microbe Stew Hi everyone! Welcome to my latest article. I am very lucky and grateful to be collaborating with Jennifer Polk: Academic, Career, and Life Coach, who has an amazing blog – From PhD to Life. Also check out #withaPhD. Here I am going to discuss my difficulties with an academic career, and over uncertainties over my future career. Jennifer offers advice on how to plan for the future and expand your career options. Make sure you look at our resource list at the end of the article, for a tonne of advice! View original post 1,837 more words ..read more
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Bone cement – saving lives since the 1940s (Part 3)
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by Stewart Barker
3y ago
Microbe Stew Hi everyone! Bone cement – saving lives since the 1940s (Part 1) Bone cement – saving lives since the 1940s (Part 2) My research into antibiotic loaded bone cement was carried out in an eight week summer research project with Professor Tom Smith at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. This was funded by a Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM) Students Into Work Grant, for which i am very grateful! View original post 399 more words ..read more
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Up in the aer(ogel)
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by Stewart Barker
3y ago
Microbe Stew Hi everyone, welcome to the latest #MicrobeStew article! This week i am incredibly lucky to have my first guest post written by Laurie Winkless (@Laurie_Winkless), who is a physics and material sci Science Communicator. Please check out her blog “No Lab Coat Needed“, where she writes some excellent and informative posts. If you’re wondering, “how does this fit into a microbiology blog?”, then wonder no more. Laurie has written an article on aerogels, a technology I recently investigated as a method for antibiotic delivery in orthopaedic surgery. For my previous posts on this top ..read more
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Bone cement – saving lives since the 1940s (Part 2)
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by Stewart Barker
3y ago
Microbe Stew Part 1 can be found here. So where does bone cement fit into this story? Since the 1940s, bone cement has been used, well, to cement bones back together (sorry it’s so obvious!). The bone cement I am discussing here is one of the most commonly used, a polymer called polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA). One of the first applications of PMMA was in cranioplasties (to repair cracks in skulls) in the 1940s.  View original post 697 more words ..read more
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Bone cement – saving lives since the 1940s (Part 1)
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by Stewart Barker
3y ago
Microbe Stew It is commonly known that many people typically outlive their joints (namely knees, hips, shoulders and elbows) and therefore need replacements. Damage to joints, especially those in the legs, causes a dramatic loss in quality of life. View original post 649 more words ..read more
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Blogging – should it be personal or professional?
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by Stewart Barker
3y ago
Microbe Stew …Or should it be both? Hi everyone, Just a short post on a blogging conundrum I’ve been pondering. As those of you who have read my blog so far, you may have noticed my relaxed (i hope!) writing style, and things like the awesome illustration of me! The quote in said picture seems weirdly pertinent (oddly the words of a professor in the first Pokemon video games) but i digress… My pondering is – is this a good way to generally present a blog, and specifically a blog that primarily discusses science communication? Personally i like to put a personal touch in all my posts, e ..read more
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#PhDaily Day 15 02/09/2015
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by Stewart Barker
3y ago
Hi Everyone! I’m back after a relaxing long weekend, spent at home in York with my family! There were lots of opportunities for photography, chilling out and I also picked some fruit! But back to business today. So in a nice change from going into uni, today I had to go down to London for a meeting. I have been a member of the Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM) Early Career Scientist (ECS) committee for 3 years now, and it was for one of our meetings that i headed into London. One of the main things we discussed was about our upcoming early career scientist conference, which any of you mi ..read more
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