The bizarre activities of mosquito research

Hey, how was your day? ~Ah yeah good thanks, I vacuumed up 600 mosquitoes and then I injected each one in their belly with the Dengue...

Advice for a PhD student

Okay so I haven't written a blog or anything in a while and I miss it. It turns out that finishing a PhD can take up some of your time....

Can microbes fight our battles for us?

So you’ve heard about probiotics; the ‘good’ bacteria in those yoghurt adverts that keep your gut healthy and your poo in great shape....

The 'bacteria' diet

Today there exists about a million and one diets for controlling our weight. From the well-known Atkins diet (low in carbohydrate) to the...

The perpetual card game

Yesterday morning my supervisor, a fellow PhD student and myself looked like a lab that had resorted to acquire funding through gambling....

Delusions of Gender

Today we had a graduate training seminar about gender equality in academia in the UK. As usual in these talks we saw the ever-depressing...