Well, the guys over at Nature have granted me blogging rights on this spangly new network thingy, so I’d better make a start, and what better place to start than an introduction?

Most of the David Copperfield stuff is either on my profile page or not hugely relevant. I’m a final year PhD student here at the University of St Andrews coming to slow terms with the fact that a career spent in research may not be for me after all. As a consequence I am flinging myself with limited enthusiasm at the post-phd job market and eyeing all opportunities with equal amounts of interest and suspicion.

This, coupled with the fact that I am (I gather) expected to hand in a thesis in October, means that this is a careers and thesis themed blog. I’ll be sharing my experiences of the coming months with all who care to glance at these posts and hopefully imparting some useful information. Every now and then I imagine I’ll put things up here that are neither thesis nor career oriented. You can probably ignore those.

Anyhow, I’ll get on with that. Nice to meet you, pleasure to be here.

See you soon…