A few months ago, I was on a walk with my family when my mum mentioned to me a “100 day dress challenge” she had heard about on the radio. Today, I finished that challenge! The challenge was posed by a company called Wool&. The idea is that you wear one of their dresses for … More 100 Day Dress Challenge
Back in February, I received an email from my university’s campaigns team. They’d heard that I’d had an “interesting career path” (History BA to Computing PhD is certainly that!), and wondered if I would be interested in talking about my experience of coming back to university for postgraduate study. I decided to challenge myself (socially … More My strange career path: an interview
A bit of flavour was added to my reading these last couple of months, because I joined a book group! A couple of people I know from choir invited me to join, and I was very pleased to accept. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my first couple of sessions (especially because of the excellent spreads of food … More Book Reviews: August to September
A couple of weeks ago I went to a conference in Madrid: the Movement Disorder Society Congress. This was my first conference abroad, and in fact my first visit to Spain! I was presenting a poster on my research using AI to detect Parkinson’s disease in brain scans. I was quite nervous about the whole … More A Spanish Escapade
I recently gave my first talk at a conference. This was only a couple of weeks after I had attended my first conference and presented my first poster. Yet somehow here I was, giving a half-hour talk to a room full of neurologists on “AI in Neurology”. It wasn’t quite as intimidating as it might … More A Talk at the Beach
A couple of weeks ago I went to my first academic conference, which was in Harrogate (see previous blog post). I was due to have a lot of free time, so before I went to Yorkshire I hatched a grand plan… The morning after I had presented my poster at the conference, I got a … More Finding Anne Lister
I don’t feel qualified to speak about anything. This is a problem in writing blog posts, in doing a degree, in having human interactions! I have no confidence in my thoughts or in my voice. I remember even at school, when the teacher asked a question, I would always wait and look around the classroom … More Putting the I in Imposter
I’m back! This website has been dormant for a while, but I have resurrected it with the resolve to write posts again. Why? I am going to make some commitments, based on lessons learned from previous blogging attempts: This is partially a selfish endeavour, but I hope only partially. I intend that by learning, writing … More Hello Again World
Cryptic Meg 