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Behind closed eyes
I can’t quite put my finger on the moment I met our next protagonist, but it was around 9 years ago. Somewhere between shared neuroscience departmental years and passing conversations, she became a familiar constant: thoughtful, sharp, and always working on something that felt secretly important. Her name is Özge, but in my head (and…
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Back to School
This piece is lucky number thirteen, and it’s an especially wholesome one. It’s about one of my dearest friends, Lindsey, and just as the title hints, it tells the story of how she went back to school (or college, or university, depending on where you’re from). I first met Lindsey through her partner, Berk, who…
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The Trigger List
I hope you are ready, because this one is going to be quite different (part comedy, part philosophy, much like the subject himself)! I cannot even recall the first time I met Clément (some of my friends call him Petit Clément because we have another friend called Clément who is Grand Clément; I like to…
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Mind’s Eye Wide Shut
It is unbelievable to me that the subject of my next profile entered my life a mere 6 months ago. Her name is Clara. She came into my world as an intern in our lab, quiet at first, her desk looking bare and a little lonely. On a whim, I gave her a couple of…
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May it Make You Happy
You know those people you walk by on the street that make you do a double-take because you just love their style? Not because it’s expensive or the latest trend, but because it’s so them? Uarda is one of those people. As with many great friendships, I met her through a mutual friend (you know…
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Through a Different Lens
I am unsure about how to begin this piece and that would also explain the length of time between this and my previous post. In addition to the fact that I recently started a new job and said goodbye to my lab, which I was at for almost 9 years. 9 years – even writing…
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Feeling the Vibe {Code}
Although I interviewed him on April 1st — fitting, given his fun-loving personality and playful outlook on life — make no mistake, this man is no joke. I also introduce him as Kelly’s husband, who featured in our previous profile, making this a special back-to-back wife-and-husband edition. Nisheet and Kelly began their master’s degrees in…
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Giving the Chimps their Home Back
Have you ever wondered where all your plastic goes? From food packaging, to toiletry bottles, to the smallest little buttons – what happens to it all once we are done with them? Many of us are fortunate enough to be able to put our items in the recycling, feel like we have done our part,…
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A Lack of Tenderness and Companionship
Oh do we have a special collaboration in store for you today! Our subject this week is Elisavet, or as I like to call her, Dora – a nickname I gave her within our first week of friendship; a nickname she despised till she learnt it came from a place of true endearment. She entered…
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A Man of Many Passions
Not just a plant guy I’m not entirely sure where to begin with our next profile, so maybe I will start with an admission of error on my part. Before my friend Olivier returned back to Geneva from his work escapades in the US, we had only crossed paths briefly, as he was on his…
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Let the House Whisper
Perfect timing In Switzerland, once you become a naturalised Swiss citizen, you have what is called a ‘place of origin’, which is the municipality where you became naturalised. This Heimatort or Lieu d’origine in German and French, respectively, is passed on through generations, and used to have a much larger significance historically, but today serves…
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Turn the volume up!
There’s something about sharing a similar taste in music that really bonds us as humans. A couple of years ago on a hot summer day, a girlfriend of mine messaged me asking if I wanted to go see the artist known as Massano perform in Lausanne. Being a lover of spontaneous plans and melodic techno,…
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We Can Make It at Home
Claudia and I She entered my life a little over 3 years ago with an incomparable flourish, refusing to finish an entire sentence without interjecting multiple Spanish colloquialisms. I was in the midst of my PhD, arguably one of the most demanding phases. By this point, I had developed valuable expertise in a specialized scientific…
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Svenska Flicka
My friend Linda On the 27th of May 1995, in a beautiful city called Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden, a little baby was born with lots of dark hair on her head. That baby was me! Unbeknownst to me, just some months earlier in 1994, another baby was born – this time with…
Talks in Tan-dem
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