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Wasabi

For several years I have been driving a very comfortable red car that has been baptised in my household Wasabi. Besides being red which...

Trains & Telescopes

A few weeks ago, my husband lost his father. I was not prepared for the death of my father in law. I was even less prepared to tell it to...

The Wall of Ugly Plots

The idea is pretty simple. Throughout our process of data analysis, we tend to produce hundreds maybe thousands of plots. The starting...

Six Streets Below Harlem

A few days ago my father in law passed away. We knew he was not well, but the news of his death was a terrible shock on all of us. I...

Markov chain

“A Markov chain is a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on...

The unexpected interview

A few weeks ago, I received an email from Kristiane Bernhard-Novotny, the CERN Courier associate editor,asking me if she could...

Behind the scenes

There are few things that I enjoy more in life than watching behind the scenes documentaries. Some of my favorites are the creation of a...

(Quantum) Chromodynamics

This year is the first time since quite a while that I am not taking a holiday. I did not have a winter holiday either as I was preparing...

Can you hear me? I can hear you!

A few days ago, I caught myself thinking about the concept of mentorship and mentors in particular. To be honest I hated the word...

Are there questions or comments ?

I recently attended a major conference in High Energy Physics called ICHEP. It was held in beautiful Bologna (Italy). The conference is...

Childcare at conferences

This will be a short one - it’s fantastic. I am attending the ICHEP conference in Bologna (Italy) with my partner and our 4 year old. I...

My dad is smarter than my mum

Or so I truly believed. Both my parents are doctors. My dad works in his private practice mostly and a clinic, he is an OBYN, he delivers...

Know thyself

I wrote the text below for two reasons. One, I had the chance to discuss with young colleagues of mine within a forum called the “Laura...

Track, review, keep or toss.

Isn’t being overwhelmed one of the nastiest nemesis of (young) academics? The field appears to favour, select and push “all around”...

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