Leal Oburoglu

Leal Oburoglu

The politics of citing papers

There was another lab working on our “favorite” protein. Not in our building, and not even in our time zone but our questions and models were quite similar. We knew of them through

Sliding labs

“With the rising competition for funding, securing a grant has become less about advancing science and more about staying in science.” ↪ Mentioned recently in a Nature News article.  As you may know, a

Welcome to the family, call me Professor

When I first started my PhD in France, I couldn’t help but address my PI with the formal “you” in french (“vous”), instead of the informal “you” (“tu”). She was very quick

The split-screen mind of the researcher

“So, what experiment should we do next?” asks the student.  And two different tabs open up side to side in your mind.  Tab 1: Taking a stroll in your field In this tab,

Are you winning?

By the end of my PhD, I was somewhat disillusioned by the way scientific research worked and decided to pick a field that could open up a (small) door to industry, if I