We are so excited to be back on the STS blogging train and are grateful to have so much support and enthusiasm from everyone that checked out our posts or various social media pages. To keep the momentum going, we want to bring back an ancient (like 5 years, y’all) type of post we both had on our personal blogs before combining forces. We will be compiling cool videos, articles, pictures, etc. covering multiple disciplines and posting them on the last Thursday of every month. We will post many of these as we find them on our Twitter or Tumblr pages, so check us out there if you don’t want to wait. Whenever we find something that makes our day, we’ll save it so we can make yours too.
To learn more check out the full article on Octonion Math.
This amazing blogpost on Thesis Whisperer about Not doing the PhD (and being OK with that). Very important read for grad students (and anyone who knows a grad student, really).
On a similar note, if you’re doing a PhD, this blog post gives solid advice about how to fight against your protectionist tendencies. The best PhD is a finished PhD.
trying to prioritize work life balance a bit during this busy season. Having said that, I have to admit I sort of hate the buzz wordy-ness of the phrase ‘work life balance’ for a couple reasons. First, because balance somehow implies equality between multiple values or goals. It’s probably more accurate to call them ‘work life trade-offs,’ a phrase I think I got from my masters adviser. Second, I feel like, particularly in academia, people absolutely love to talk about balance, then keep right on working 12 hours a day or whatever. If you need some encouragement to choose to have a life sometimes, here’s a story. I recently co-organized a panel on non-academic careers in conservation (It was so, so great! Want to know more?), and 
Sweet Tea, Science 