The art of philosophy of science

Curriculum vitae , or its popular short-form CV, is a Latin phrase which loosely translates as 'course of my life'. It's an important document which can make or break a career opportunity. That's why it needs to be crisp and error-free. It is a reflection of all that you have achieved through your hard-work in the last decade or even more. So take some time out and be earnest while writing your first CV and eventually editing it as and when you fly higher in your careers! It shouldn't be confused with a bio-data. Your CV doesn't include your date or place of birth, sex, marital status or any other personal information. It is completely a professional document. A photograph should also be excluded from a CV. Academic CVs are generally a maximum of 4 pages long. Some recruiters may ask for shorter ones or a  résumé (also spelt resume). These two terms can also be used interchangeably. While at other times, both a  résumé and a CV may be asked f...

I created a Twitter account and became a regular user of Facebook in my first year of PhD. Yes, exactly the time when you be over confident and think that people are interested in your crap. Or at least I thought that way. Or atleast that's what my Facebook memories tell me. I, being the regular over-enthusiastic first year who believed that she could be "future Nobel prize laureate", setup my Twitter handle as @NaziaPCL, where PCL stands for Protein Crystallography Laboratory, which evidently was the name of my doctoral lab. And if I am not mistaken, also my password for a computer login. On Facebook, as per my memories, I posted about getting bored, my protein eluting rather slowly and of course, my Farmville updates. On the other hand, I didn't tweet much. A couple of dumb tweets, like, "Tweet!". Though I kind of stayed active on Facebook ever since, the Twitter craze lasted exactly one day. Facebook for me has always been a very personal space. I do v...