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Friday, 25 September 2026

The closure of the Academy of science museum is shortsighted and a failure of leadership

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  François Gould, PhD François Gould is a Philadelphia resident since 2019 and an associate professor in New Jersey. Although now primaril...
Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Good bye

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I started this blog in my own words "to blog primarily about thoughts about my work and life out here". Well, both work and here a...
Tuesday, 11 June 2019

A scientist in four dimensions

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The past five years have been a wild ride intellectually and professionally. When I started this postdoc I was a year out of completing a Ph...
Monday, 29 April 2019

A portrait of a job search

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As some you may know, I recently signed an offer letter for a tenure track job starting this July. My time as a postdoctoral researcher in n...
Monday, 25 June 2018

On fallibility, humility, and responsibility in science

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It has been a rough seventy two hours in the lab. Things have gone very very wrong. We have lost a lot of animals to an unknown illness that...
Friday, 2 February 2018

On the vastness of friendship

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We had nowhere to go. We were on holiday in a part of France where we knew no one, in a decidedly less than glamourous rental cottage, 100...
Wednesday, 3 January 2018

Professor PaleoGould's completely unvetted guide to surviving five day conferences

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Five day conferences are fun, and intellectually stimulating, and will provide you with experiment and grant ideas for months. They are also...