your academic FYP 30th January, 2025

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Hey Scholar, here's what we have for you this week:

• PhD and Postdoctoral opportunities 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇸🇬 🇩🇪 ;

• A not brilliant but certainly productive method for academic writing;

• 58% of research discovers something by accident;

• Academia cosplays as a high-tech supercar;

And much more.

OPPORTUNITIES

💼Funded PhDs, Postdocs and academic job openings

• Postdoctoral Positions @ Côte d'Azur University, France: click here

• PhD Positions @ Ulster University, Norther Ireland, UK: click here

• Postdoctoral & Research Positions @ NUS, Singapore: click here

• PhD Positions @ Jülich Research Centre, Germany: click here

If the idea of making your PhD application is daunting, here's a detailed guide to help you through the entire process👇

RESOURCES

👓Talk nerdy to me:

Science often isn't sexy enough for the general public to pay attention to, especially not when researchers present it in hard to understand, jargon-monoxide. But this doesn't mean they're not interested in what we do. This 4-minute Ted-talk is a masterclass for how non-scientists would like scientists to talk about their work to them. 

📝The Mumford Method for writing: not brilliant but productive

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