Issue 55

Leopard geckoes can regrow their tails and their brains now!

Have you ever felt like you have too much on your plate- that your workload is getting bigger whilst your time is getting shorter? Have you ever felt like you are making loads of little mistakes you wouldn’t normally make? You might have suffered from burnout.

Hope Jahren is a geochemist and geobiologist and the author of Lab Girl, a book about Hope’s journey through science from Hope’s childhood through to her career in the lab today. 

It took me a long time to get past my blinking cursor. I did almost anything I could to avoid it. Looking out the window, making a tea, writing plans, checking social media… you name it, I did it. But over the years, I’ve learnt a few ways of getting past a creative block.

Susanne is a Cloud Specialist who wrote Women of Color in Tech, in 2020 with the aim to inform and inspire women of colour to pursue tech careers despite the challenges unique to women of colour.

“For my book, The Shuri Effect: Bridging the Gap for Young Black Women in STEM, I read loads of research, interviewed many generous Black women and reflected on my own STEM journey. All that (and many edits later), we have a book. These are 5 facts I learned while writing it.”