This blog focuses on professional and social survival. Here, I talk about physical survival: Get through your Ph.D., and hopefully also through the rest of your research career without damaging your health or even your life.

The theorists think they are not at risk and can stop reading here. The experimentalists think they’re careful enough and can stop reading now – do you really want to take the chance? There are at least three important categories of occupational hazards for scientists, which I aim to make you aware of.

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