American expat PhD living in Stockholm

“Tips to secure your first PostDoc”- my notes from the lecture given by KI alum, Riccardo Guidi

Riccardo finished his PhD at KI in March of 2014. Since then he has gone on to thrive as a postdoctoral fellow at the Francis Crick Institute in London. Within minutes of meeting Riccardo you realize that he is incredibly organized and a strong communicator, two assets which certainly aided him in securing his position after concluding his PhD. You can see these skills displayed on his blog, Scie…

Decide

How do we make decisions, and is there a better way? That is the topic of the book I recently finished, Bestäm Digby Pelle Tornell. In addition to bolstering my Swedish skills, I decided to read this book because I have a long-standing interest in popular psychology and especially the flaws in how we think and perceive our world. If you are interested in these topics regarding…

To Viz or Not to Viz?

I’ve just wrapped up an online course called Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau.

In fact, you can view my final project here. It’s a 5-minute video where I show off some of my freshly-minted skills with the data analytics software, Tableau via proposing specific business process changes for company with a challenge.

The course was the third in the Excel to MySQL: Analytic…

How would INTERPOL fare if they were stuck with fingerprint kits to do all of their work?

That’s a rhetorical question and this post is not about INTERPOL. This blog post is about an intercontinental group of physiologists who published work near the end of 2015 which has helped bring our ways of studying exercise physiology into the modern era.

The mysterious machinery in muscles

Whether from textbooks, or from soreness after a workout, we all know that exercise has an impact on our…