Well, it’s been rather a long time since I wrote a blog post. I’m not beating myself up over it – I did finish a PhD in the intervening months! More on that another time. For now, let me whisk us back to the middle of the merry month of May, at which time you … More Business in Basel
Last year, I went to the Movement Disorders conference in Madrid, to present my PhD work as a poster. This year I took a poster to the same conference which was being held in Copenhagen, and I took Nicholas with me! Sunday We set off for the train station with a little trepidation, as there … More A Copenhagen Caper
I recently entered a “Three Minute Thesis” competition at my university. Delightfully, I was awarded the judges’ first prize! Trying to fit the principles behind my PhD into such a small amount of time and one static slide was a surprisingly challenging task. I really had to sharpen my thinking about which were the most … More Three Minute Thesis
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 couple of weeks ago I went to the International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases in Gothenburg, Sweden. I was presenting a poster on my Parkinson’s research. This was my third conference, my second abroad, but the first that I was attending on my own (without colleagues). It was also my first time going … More My First Solo Conference
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
Last week it was the annual meeting of the Association of British Neurologists in Harrogate, and my first in-person conference! I had submitted an abstract on my PhD work so far, which had been accepted for poster presentation. If you’re interested, you can see it here: So last Tuesday I rather nervously packed up my … More My First Conference
It is a truth universally acknowledged that programmers are consumed by their side projects. This is certainly true of my husband, who can often be found tapping away into the early hours, working on his automated household reports, his home monitoring system, or his train-spotting app. It is one of several things that has made … More A Side Project!
When I was writing essays at school and university, I always began by defining my terms. This was no great hardship – I find words and etymology terribly interesting. It also served me well. There is a reason that it is a staple of essay-writers everywhere: through definitions, key issues and points of contention come … More What (On Earth) is AI?
Cryptic Meg 