As I recently announced, I have recently secured an ERC Starting Grant for my project on the genomics of miniaturisation in vertebrates. One of the things that was really valuable in the application process was reading others’ experiences on their websites and blogs, so I think it appropriate that I […]
2023 was an exceptionally challenging year, with a lot of interesting developments to reflect on. My year was unusual, in that it was dominated not by publications or travel, as is usual for me, but instead by grant writing and training. Scientific Outputs I had nine papers published in 2023, […]
Here at the end of 2022, it is time to do as I have done since 2016, and give some reflections on the year. These focus mostly on the academic aspects of the year, though for reasons that will soon become apparent, the personal and academic aspects of 2022 were […]
Another year is over, and 2021 seemed still more full and stressful than 2020! So here are some reflections on my year from an academic perspective. The first of January 2021 saw me starting a new job: PI on a three-year German Research Foundation (DFG) funded PostDoc project in Michael […]
I am thrilled to announce that I will taking up the post of Curator of Herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, and Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of Copenhagen on the 1st of September, 2021! Having just started a PostDoc at the University of […]
2020 is over at last. What a year. If you will indulge me, I will do as I always do, and look back on my year from an academic perspective. What a year it was. I more or less started off my 2020 on a plane to New Zealand, heading […]
On the 13th of December 2019, my colleagues and I had a paper published online in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, about a really interesting case where a frog we thought was one species turned out to be two occurring in sympatry, but without having diverged in sympatry (read the paper […]
The culmination of three and a half years is finally here. Tomorrow as I write this, the 21st of March, 2019, I will submit my PhD thesis, entitled ‘On the value of systematics for the study of evolution: insights from the reptiles and amphibians of Madagascar’*. It has been a […]
The time is here again where I talk about my year, its highs and lows, and where things are going from here. 2018 started in the rainforest. I had been in Montagne d’Ambre with my team for a month and a half already, and had just been joined a few […]
So you’ve done the hard parts: you’ve landed yourself a PhD position doing the research that you’ve always been fascinated by and working with the leaders in the field you’ve wanted to be in since you were a little tot. You’ve managed to get a few publications out of it, […]
It is around the time of year where blogs tend to publish reviews of their posts of the previous year, and academics think back to their achievements of the past year, so I want to take an opportunity to do both here. My last ‘year in review’ was actually midway […]
In April 2017, Darren Naish posted on his blog about the books that most influenced him, in a post by the same title as this one. This list, which, I admit, contains not a single book present in my own library, inspired me to share my own. In this case […]
