{"id":90371,"date":"2019-05-07T06:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/just-what-does-a-postdoctoral-theoretical-physicist-do-all-day"},"modified":"2019-05-07T06:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:02:29","slug":"just-what-does-a-postdoctoral-theoretical-physicist-do-all-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/just-what-does-a-postdoctoral-theoretical-physicist-do-all-day","title":{"rendered":"Just what does a postdoctoral theoretical physicist do all day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/just-what-does-a-postdoctoral-theoretical-physicist-do-all-day2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coffee\u2026 mostly, I drink coffee.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"897\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/just-what-does-a-postdoctoral-theoretical-physicist-do-all-day2.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/just-what-does-a-postdoctoral-theoretical-physicist-do-all-day2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/csferrie.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/20160606_103555.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/csferrie.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/20160606_103555.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/csferrie.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/20160606_103555.jpg?w=768 768w, https:\/\/csferrie.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/20160606_103555.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/csferrie.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/20160606_103555.jpg 1494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px)  85vw, (max-width: 909px)  67vw, (max-width: 984px)  60vw, (max-width: 1362px)  62vw, 840px\" data-attachment-id=\"230\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/csferrie.com\/2016\/11\/22\/just-what-does-a-postdoctoral-theoretical-physicist-do-all-day\/20160606_103555\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/csferrie.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/20160606_103555.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1494,1117\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{\u201caperture\u201d:\u201d2.2\u201d,\u201d credit\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d camera\u201d:\u201d SM-N910G\u201d,\u201d caption\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d created_timestamp\u201d:\u201d1465209355\u201d,\u201d copyright\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d focal_length\u201d:\u201d4.8\u201d,\u201d iso\u201d:\u201d64\u201d,\u201d shutter_speed\u201d:\u201d0.03030303030303\u201d,\u201d title\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d orientation\u201d:\u201d1\u201d}\" data-image-title=\"20160606_103555\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/csferrie.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/20160606_103555.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/csferrie.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/20160606_103555.jpg?w=840\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A kindergartener once asked me, \u201cwhy don\u2019t you wear science clothes?\u201d I gathered that she meant a lab coat. Then there is the utter surprise my neighbors show when I tell them\u2014yes\u2014I am on my way to work wearing sandals, shorts and a t-shirt. Take a moment and do a google image search of \u201cscientist\u201d. You have to scroll through several pages before you see a person not wearing a lab coat. So if I don\u2019t wear a lab coat while staring into a beaker as if the colorful liquid inside contained a part of my soul, what do I do all day?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csferrie.com\/2016\/11\/22\/just-what-does-a-postdoctoral-theoretical-physicist-do-all-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee\u2026 mostly, I drink coffee. A kindergartener once asked me, \u201cwhy don\u2019t you wear science clothes?\u201d I gathered that she meant a lab coat. Then there is the utter surprise my neighbors show when I tell them\u2014yes\u2014I am on my way to work wearing sandals, shorts and a t-shirt. Take a moment and do a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}