Webinar Tuesday 18th June

I’m delighted to see we have over 800 users of this site from 31 countries in six continents, with many returning regularly to read new articles. This suggests to me a widespread need for better ways to handle the challenges we all face in research life. 

​For reasons outlined below, I will be holding a ‘Science Without Anguish’ webinar on Tuesday 18th June at 3pm UK time and it would be great to see many of you there! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-without-anguish-webinar-professor-michael-coleman-tickets-921471956427
 
Many of us have the experience of understanding exactly how we want to approach our research when we look at it from outside, helped I hope by sites like this, but struggling to put that into practice in everyday life. A big part of that is due to cultural influence in our workplace environment. It is hard, for example, to see through the irony that our sense of overwhelm is, in part, driven by our own creativity, when our neighbour is panicking about their own ‘to do’ list. Or to accept that peer review is an unavoidably noisy and imperfect, ‘least worst’ process while a colleague is fuming about the reviews of their own paper. 
 
Anguish is all around us, all day and every day. Much of it is harmful and it is infectious!
 
One way to counter this is to build a separate community of like-minded people, providing us with a reminder that there is another, actually quite widespread but often silenced, way of thinking. And thankfully today we can bring people together over great distances to do this. 
 
For this reason, and to generate wider discussion of these issues, I am organising the first ‘Science without Anguish’ webinar on Tuesday 18th June at 3pm UK time (16:00 in most of Europe, 10am US East Coast, 9am Central, 7am Pacific). Apologies to our (many!) Australasian and Asian readers. I hope to organise another webinar soon at a more convenient time for you. 
 
It would be great to see as many readers as possible at the webinar, so we have a lively discussion and recognise how many people share similar views about how we all approach our research. The link to register is: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-without-anguish-webinar-professor-michael-coleman-tickets-921471956427
 
In this webinar, I will give a 20 minute overview of the blog series – what inspired me to write it, a few cross-cutting themes, and where it could go from here. Then I’ll open it up to Q & A so we hear also from some of you. I am particularly keen to hear about topics you’d like to see covered in Series 2, which I will start posting in September. 
 
Thank you!