In the Dark » Mental Health

There has been a lot of comment on social media about a recent article in Nature about the mental health of graduate students and the numbers looking for treatment. There are many sources of stre...

https://telescoper.blog/2024/10/03/mental-health-and-graduate-studies/

The other day I slipped in the garden and fell into a flowerbed. It wasn’t serious as it was a raised bed so I didn’t fall far, though I did get a bit of a gash on my leg where I hit the litt...

https://telescoper.blog/2024/07/28/fear-of-falling/

What I thought would be a straightforward trip back from Rome to Barcelona turned into nothing of the sort. I arrived at Roma Termini station and got on a train for Fiumicino Airport. The train d...

https://telescoper.blog/2024/06/19/chaos-in-rome-and-barcelona/

There’s a new paper on the arXiv by Kamiel Janssens and Michiko Ueda that addresses some of the challenges that arise for people working in large STEM collaborations. Although the sample they u...

https://telescoper.blog/2023/08/12/the-challenges-of-large-collaborations-in-stem/

You may recall that a couple of weeks ago, on the occasion of my birthday, I started a fundraiser  for Pieta, which is a charity working to prevent suicide and self-harm. Well, the fundraiser i...

https://telescoper.blog/2023/06/17/a-birthday-thank-you/

My birthday is coming up and for my birthday this year I’m asking for donations to Pieta, which is a charity working to prevent suicide and self-harm. I’ve chosen this cause because their mis...

https://telescoper.blog/2023/06/02/birthday-fundraiser/

A few days ago I mentioned on this blog the case of a gay teenager in Navan being beaten up by boys from the same school; there was a news report here. Five youths were subsequently arrested but...

https://telescoper.blog/2023/05/21/the-hate-is-still-out-there/

Today, Monday 1st August 2022, being the first Monday in August, is a Bank Holiday in Ireland. This holiday was created by the Bank Holiday Act of 1871 when Ireland was under British rule. While ...

https://telescoper.blog/2022/08/01/la-saoire-i-mi-lunasa-2/

Although it has weighed on my mind in recent weeks, and I have mentioned it on this blog a couple of times, I’ve managed to avoid writing too much about the fact that exactly ten years ago I wa...

https://telescoper.blog/2022/07/21/life-and-chemical-imbalances/

It is now European Health Week as well as “Employee Wellbeing Month” here at Maynooth University. I’m reminded that ten years ago that I was heading for a breakdown and a subsequent spell i...

https://telescoper.blog/2022/05/10/mental-health-and-the-reasons-for-burnout/