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The Lonely Pipette is a podcast where scientists share tips to help you do better science. The episodes include conversations with researchers around the world. Renaud Pourpre and Jonathan Weitzman will talk to inspiring people to learn about their habits and recommendations for all scientists. Don’t stay alone, come join The Lonely Pipette community!
The Lonely Pipette : helping scientists do better science
TLP #19 : “Should I stay or should I go?” - Jenny Rohn
In this episode, we talk with the multi-talented Jenny Rohn about her journey zig-zagging from academia to a biotech-startup, to science publishing and then back into academia.
- She tells us about her unconventional path and how she decided to go to a start-up and then come back to academic research
- She made long, agonizing lists about pros and cons of leaving or staying in academia
- This period of indecision led her to start writing novels
- Jenny admits that it was not easy to get back on to an academic path
- She warns people against giving negative advise and she always tries to be honest, but positive feedback
- Jenny says that In the ‘old days’ there used to be a myth that there was only one way to do science. She says that somewhere in the ‘90s there was a shift but it took a while for the old-guard to notice.
- “Do not ever turn away from an opportunity to network. You need to get out and talk to people”
- She tells us how she came up with the idea of ‘lab-lit’ and recommends some of her favourites
- “If you want to be a writer… you need to write a lot and read a lot”
- Jenny shares her thoughts about the place of narrative in scientific writing
She mentioned these labs, resources and lab-lit authors
- University College London (UCL) : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/
- The Lab Lit website : http://lablit.com/
- Science is Vital : https://scienceisvital.org.uk/
- Jenny’s blog ‘Mind The Gap’ : https://occamstypewriter.org/mindthegap/
- White Coats At Dawn on the Cosmic Shambles network : https://cosmicshambles.com/words/blogs/jennyrohn
- Her first novel ‘Experimental Heart’ : https://jennyrohn.com/exheart
- Her second novel ‘The Honest Look’ : https://jennyrohn.com/honestlook
- Her third novel ‘Cat Zero’ : https://jennyrohn.com/catzero
- Barbara Kingsolver : http://barbarakingsolver.net/books/
- Carl Djerassi : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Djerassi
- Allegra Goodman : https://allegragoodman.com/
- John William Waterhouse : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Waterhouse
To find out more about Jenny visit her website or follow her on Twitter
- https://jennyrohn.com/
- https://twitter.com/jennyrohn
- Orcid : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8766-6056
- https://www.instagram.com/jennifer.rohn.3/
To find out more about Renaud and Jonathan :
- Twitter : https://twitter.com/LePourpre
- LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudpourpre/
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- LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanweitzman/%20
More about the soundtrack :
Music by Amaria - Lovely Swindler https://soundcloud.com/amariamusique/