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Save money and save the environment also!
Living as a junior scientist comes with a tight budget. It is rare to see someone living on a generous student stipend. And even for a postdoc, the range of salary is tight. It is just enough to live in that area. So if you have a family to support or paying back some student…
Problems with food culture you may experience in Korea
Living abroad helped me see through other person’s point of view, especially expats who stay in Korea. Now I can roughly picture the difficulties that foreigners living in Korea would face. There are a few things I heard from friends, but most of the stuff I have written here is the recent epiphany, being in…
New kind of mentors for junior researchers: youtube, podcast, blog…
Am I good enough to be a researcher? How to spot a bad supervisor? How I can find industry jobs? Should I continue my postdoc? When you pursue your research as a graduate student or postdoc, you face questions and issues like the above that are not directly related to your laboratory work but quite…
Living abroad and food
Many science nomads are investing in their careers at almost 100% expense of their own vacation and hobbies, but eating is different. Because you can’t live without eating. Eating is an instinctive pleasure and also a basic action for survival. In that sense, living as an expat can be an indirect opportunity to broaden your…
Nature postdoc survey
“a crucial but often marginalized segment of the scientific workforce” NATURE CAREER NEWS 19 JUNE 2020 In the middle of the pandemic, June 2020, Nature launched a remarkable project. They made a survey dedicated to postdocs, which they described as “a crucial but often marginalized segment of the scientific workforce”. The questions are about the postdoctoral…
Productive enhancement tools (app, software)
Luckily we are surrounded by lots of on/offline software, smartphone apps which can help us function more efficiently. When I was small, only things available were a Franklin Planner, a small dictionary and maybe a small voice recorder. Times have been changed, there is quite a big possibility of choice for us. I want to…
From the rice field to science: autobiography
As young as I remember I liked SF, it was fun, imaginary get away from my real world. Although I appreciate the beautiful nature around me, farm working was boring and tough. And the village was really small. So SF was always my getaway drug. On top of this, anything related to science (or even…
Small tips on international money transfer
We all know young science nomads are not paid with a huge paycheck. And sometimes facing a high cost of living in the new society where you are working. But some of us still want to transfer money across the border for reasons like supporting family or paying a student loan. Already with the currency…
The myth about scientists: pleasant lecture by Martin Chalfie
“I can categorically say I hate impact factors!” by Nobel Laureate Martin Chalfie. I normally do not follow Nobel prize laureate’s lectures. One reason is that I kind of become a bit bitter and sceptical towards big guys’ flashy lectures after all those years of conferences and seminars. And the other and more critical reason…
Your contract, could you read it?
Language could be the biggest trouble in your life when you move out of your home country for studying or work. This somewhat quite trivial reasoning was not actually obvious for me. Well, let’s admit it, schools never teach you something really useful in your life. We researchers (or students) frequently assume that if you…
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