Well, this year I said to myself (after checking out the amazing winning thesis by Min Loo from 2017) that I would try for the Three Minute Thesis Competition. I didn’t expect to win for my university! “The 3MT is a professional and engaging international competition. It challenges PhD students to present their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience in the space of three minutes. The competition is based on the premise that the capacity to… Read more

Nyles and Sarah (SNL’s Andy Samberg and HIMYM’s Cristin Milioti) are having one of those days. At least they are until around about five minutes into the movie… when you realise that Nyles has been having one of those days for quite some time now. I was recently discussing with my partner how it was unlikely we’ll see the musical Groundhog Day in this current year (and maybe for the foreseeable future), and it led to a discussion of this… Read more