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NOW for SCIENCE in SERBIA

Posted 17 April 2012 by Ivana Gadjanski

I have had some major changes in my personal life. Of course it affected my professional life, as well as blogging here. I won’t be writing here any details, but this phenomenon of how personal life can determine the professional aspects is very interesting to me and I plan to write about it in some future posts. However, now, I would like to share here the link from Nature News Blog about Serbian scientists who are up in arms after... Read more

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Living Science

Posted 26 January 2012 by Ivana Gadjanski

I’m still a newbie on the Nature Network and am still finding my niche here. Judging by my first posts, my niche will be a cluster of musings, with the strong gravity center consisting of one topic: how to define your own way. In science. Science in every way. Science as a way of thinking – observing the world, as a profession or better to say way-of-life, science as a set of steps which most of us go through… I... Read more

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Zagzigging :)

Posted 11 December 2011 by Ivana Gadjanski

And what happened next? I didn’t accept that offer for vacation from my boss. I knew I needed something else. But what that else might be, I wasn’t 100% sure…I went back home. And, as it happens more often than someone who doesn’t really believe in coincidences and random happenings would expect..(that someone being me:)..the opportunity presented itself. I was offered a position at the University in my home country. To teach undergrads. I was a bit scared, never having... Read more

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Zigzagging

Posted 17 November 2011 by Ivana Gadjanski

I still remember the feeling I had immediately after obtaining my PhD degree. It was a mixture of relief, accomplishment and somehow emptiness. And one question kept popping in to my mind. What now? I was offered a post-doc position in the same lab. I also received two informal invitations from colleagues I was collaborating with during my PhD to come to their labs as post-doc. None of these seemed…well…challenging enough. All three positions were in the same field I... Read more

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