Your well-being impacts both your work and your career. Each episode of The Happy Scientist dials in on hands-on, actionable steps you can take to make sure you stay happy, focused, and satisfied in the lab. Join us to experience a more fulfilling career in bioscience.
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What Gets You up in the Morning to Do Science? Why Knowing The Reason Matters
#73 — Why do you do science?Is it your passion, is it to make an impact, is it just the way you make your living, or something else?Whatever the reason, having a clear...
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Why Keeping Your Options Open Is Holding You Back
#72 — Freedom is not having lots of options—it's choosing between them. You are free to choose.Now think about that in the context of your research project and career....
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From Scientific Rigor to Mindful Vigor: Tara Nylese's Path to Well-Being
#71 — Tara Nylese was a career scientist and formerly a Regional Market Development Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific. She left her Market Development Manager job to...
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Urgency. How to Keep it From Ruining Your Day, Project, and Career
#70 — Academia can seem like nothing but deadlines. Experiments, people, reports, and objectives compete for our immediate attention. Sometimes, rightly so. But you ca...
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How to Deal With Challenging People In Your Lab (and Beyond)
#69 — Challenging people. You get them everywhere. Your lab—and beyond.There's the one who block-books instruments for two weeks straight. There's the one who barely s...
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