Wit & Wisdom

Convection in eggs

Iris van Zelst March 28, 2018

I cannot guarantee that you will get an nice, chocolate Easter egg for Easter from the Easter bunny, but I can guarantee that you will get a nice, Easter-themed geodynamics blog post from me. That's something, isn't it?
Credit: Public domain pictures.

Happy Easter everybody! It is that time of year again when you wake up excitedly on Easter Sunday and run into the garden to find the chocolate eggs the Easter Bunny hid for you! What? That’s just me? Hm. Well, in any case, you will probably have a couple of extra days off from work and this should be celebrated with a themed blog post! As you know, geodynamics is about the large scale dynam ...[Read More]

Help us fight patriarchy, one comic strip at a time!

Iris van Zelst March 21, 2018

We can do it!
Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Women in science/geodynamics: a topic we have discussed before and should continue to discuss, because we’re not there yet. In this new Wit & Wisdom post, Marie Bocher, postdoc at the Seismology and Wave Physics group of ETH Zürich, discusses a range of all-too-common encounters women face and a possible solution to awareness: comics (drawn by Alice Adenis, PhD student at ENS Lyon). You ...[Read More]

Work-life balance: insights from geodynamicists

Iris van Zelst January 25, 2018

Don't we all have the same hobby in academia?
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Maintaining a good work-life balance is essential for a steady career and happy life in academia. However, like with all good things, it is not easy. In this new Wit & Wisdom post, Jessica Munch, PhD student at ETH Zürich, explores how to achieve a good work-life balance. Research is a truly amazing occupation, especially in geodynamics (okay, that might be a bit biased…). However, disre ...[Read More]

The fluid dynamics of wine

Iris van Zelst December 27, 2017

Cheers! Merry Christmas!
Credit: Max Pixel

The Christmas holidays: the one time of year that you don’t need to think about work. Instead, you are focussed on your family (including the in-laws), the massive amount of food still left (a miscalculation every year), and you’re starting to think about your New Year’s resolutions (because we give it a try every year, right?). So, this is definitely not the time to go and read ...[Read More]