My Life in {sh}Rambles | A Blog Experiment

Nov 58 min read

Navigating Unemployment and Uncertainty: How a Year Without Work Changed My Perspective on Career Stability and the Future

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This article explores the journey of navigating job loss, career change and the uncertainty of today's job market.

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‘Everything is about other humans’: Nicole Arbour, Belmont Forum, on her career switch from neuroscience to anthropocene

Maria Rosales Gerpe

May 15 min read

‘Everything is about other humans’: Nicole Arbour, Belmont Forum, on her career switch from neuroscience to anthropocene

Nicole Arbour, Executive Director at Belmont Forum, was once a neuroscientist. She now coordinates anthropocene research. How'd she switch?

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Your girl got scammed on Etsy: Here's how to spot it and avoid similar fraud

Maria Rosales Gerpe

Apr 126 min read

Your girl got scammed on Etsy: Here's how to spot it and avoid similar fraud

I am severely unemployed. Since August 2023 when I cashed my last cheque from the Cambridge Times, my dream job from which I was laid off...

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Arguments that sound like fallacies in Gabor Maté's The Myth of Normal

Maria Rosales Gerpe

Mar 66 min read

Arguments that sound like fallacies in Gabor Maté's The Myth of Normal

Gabor Mate's Myth of Normal is incredibly researched, why do some arguments sound like badly put-together rhetoric?

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On the naughtiness that is writing in books

Maria Rosales Gerpe

Mar 32 min read

On the naughtiness that is writing in books

Some people are sacrilegious enough to write in books: I'm one of them. According to "Oh Reader"'s most recent issue, I'm not alone.

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A letter about mental health: You should read Esmé Weijun Wang

Maria Rosales Gerpe

Feb 319 min read

A letter about mental health: You should read Esmé Weijun Wang

Esme Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias is a powerful examination of mental health, which made me ponder about my own mental health.

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What is mindfulness and why has been it so important to me, especially after my diagnosis with ADHD

Maria Rosales Gerpe

Feb 19 min read

What is mindfulness and why has been it so important to me, especially after my diagnosis with ADHD

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This post is written in a combination of drawings and writing. For this reason, some writing is repeated. Recently, as I often do these...

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Maria Rosales Gerpe

Nov 30, 20232 min read

The D in ADHD is for Disconnect

Flash non-fiction on the way attention can mean care and love, and how ADHD can create a disconnect between two people who love each other.

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The D in ADHD stands for (double) disappointment

Maria Rosales Gerpe

Sep 29, 20228 min read

The D in ADHD stands for (double) disappointment

How having ADHD impacts my life, and that of my son. The story of a morning gone awry.

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Maria Rosales Gerpe

May 8, 20227 min read

Read this blog at your own risk

There will soon be a blog here for you to read. It won't be about food. Or will it? It's hard to tell right now. In the meantime enjoy...

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Maria Rosales Gerpe

Nov 12, 20218 min read

Motherhood & Financial Security

First published in Medium. If you’re looking to cry in the mornings, I highly recommend “Maid.” It’s a Netflix show about a single mom...

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Maria Rosales Gerpe

Apr 25, 20214 min read

I loved Love and Monsters, but...

First published in Medium Have you seen Love and Monsters, yet? I recently "binged" it, or to be precise, watched it in parts throughout...

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Maria Rosales Gerpe

Mar 4, 20215 min read

The Road to Scientific Writing

When I was little, I enjoyed two things: dinosaurs and story-telling. More so the latter. I’d gather friends and cousins at birthday...

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Maria Rosales Gerpe

Dec 31, 20208 min read

Growing from 2020

I was recently watching a YouTube clip of James Corden interviewing Ana de Armas for the Late, Late Show. Ana is Cuban – just like me....

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Maria Rosales Gerpe

Aug 11, 202013 min read

Pregnancy and COVID-19

Previously published under COVID-19 Resources Canada by the CanCOVID Network. Disclaimer: Please note that the COVID-19 pandemic remains...

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How Mass Spectrometry Can Help Limit Reproducibility Problems

Maria Rosales Gerpe

Nov 8, 20194 min read

How Mass Spectrometry Can Help Limit Reproducibility Problems

This piece was originally published in Scientific American Antibodies are critical for biological and medical research. Yet, since early...

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What is Protein Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry?

Maria Rosales Gerpe

Aug 1, 20197 min read

What is Protein Sequencing by Mass Spectrometry?

Originally posted in Rapid Novor, Inc.'s website Frederick Sanger, father of DNA sequencing, sequenced the first protein, insulin, before...

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The Need for Ethical and Experimental Regulation in Genome Editing

Maria Rosales Gerpe

May 31, 20194 min read

The Need for Ethical and Experimental Regulation in Genome Editing

This article was first published by The Health Science Inquiry Dr. Robert Edwards (Fig. 1A), the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology and...

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Maria Rosales Gerpe

Oct 22, 20187 min read

Why PhDs are Difficult

I was recently reading Kathy Barker's At the Helm, and came across a great summary of why PhDs are difficult. According to Baker, unlike...

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“You were saying…? What happens when you ‘zone out’.”

Maria Rosales Gerpe

Oct 15, 20183 min read

“You were saying…? What happens when you ‘zone out’.”

Has anyone ever tried to get your attention because you’re blankly staring into space? Have you ever wondered why someone might be...

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