aruben, Author at Adam Ruben

Magnetic Fields, or, The Minor Matter of Your Major

Before going to college, I dreamed about my career options. I thought about my career options. But do you know what I didn’t do? I didn’t research my career options.

aruben2017-11-07T16:10:03+00:00February 27th, 2014|Experimental Error, Writing|

New Scientist: Escape from Workplace Hell

I was interviewed for an article about bad grad school workplace situations.

aruben2017-11-07T16:10:03+00:00February 5th, 2014|Press|

Intersession 2014 Celebrates a Decade of Stand-Up

Article about the 10-year anniversary of my stand-up comedy class at Johns Hopkins.

aruben2017-11-07T16:10:03+00:00January 30th, 2014|Press|

Adjunctification Blues

As Johns Hopkins University floats a plan to limit the number of grad students and raise their salaries, our columnist envisions an overly adjunctified world.

aruben2017-11-07T16:10:03+00:00January 23rd, 2014|Experimental Error, Writing|

Story League Podcast: “Vermontster Under the Bed”

Story League’s podcast features my story, “Vermontster Under the Bed,” about harrowing experience at a bed-and-breakfast. (Click on the episode called “Nightmares.”)

aruben2017-11-07T16:10:03+00:00January 17th, 2014|Press|

Top Five Epic Science Communication Fails

Guest post on Journal of Visualized Experiments blog.

aruben2017-11-07T16:10:03+00:00January 6th, 2014|Other Writing, Writing|

Science Careers 2013: The Year’s Best Stories

Three of the five most popular Science Careers articles of 2013 were mine: The Postdoc: A Special Kind of Hell, Sexy, Sexy Scientists, and Regrettable Resumes.

aruben2017-11-07T16:10:03+00:00December 26th, 2013|Press|

BlogTalkRadio Interview: “The Literary Showcase” with Sharon Jenkins

aruben2017-11-07T16:10:03+00:00December 21st, 2013|Press|

There’s No Place Like the Lab for the Holidays

Here are some of this winter’s lesser-known science playthings for all ages, from the precocious little budding scientist in your family to the precocious little budding scientist who heads your department.

aruben2017-11-07T16:10:03+00:00December 20th, 2013|Experimental Error, Writing|

The Postdoc: A Special Kind of Hell

Unfortunately, many postdocs are treated like glorified lab techs … and it’s very sad that you felt a little good just now about the “glorified” part.

[Linked on Slashdot, 11/25/13]

[Linked on Slate, 4/1/15]

aruben2017-11-07T16:10:03+00:00November 21st, 2013|Experimental Error, Writing|

Searching for Truths (at Booths)

We scientists need to get out there and sell, sell, sell, even though salesmanship isn’t in our marshmallows.

aruben2017-11-07T16:10:03+00:00October 24th, 2013|Experimental Error, Writing|

Rich Scientist, Poor Scientist

My old grad school lab appears to have fallen victim to the same budget cuts that are killing science around the country.

aruben2017-11-07T16:10:03+00:00September 25th, 2013|Experimental Error, Writing|

Journal of Visualized Experiments: The 5 Components to Making it on TV as a Scientist

“As it is right now, scientific advances are communicated by scientific journals, which are really only read by the scientists. Those are sometimes picked up by mainstream reporters, and in that whisper-down the-lane translation process a lot of things get misinterpreted. A lot of times the most frivolous but interesting parts get played up, and you lose what it’s actually worth.”