{"id":860,"date":"2018-01-03T17:57:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aassie.net\/Pro\/?p=860"},"modified":"2018-01-03T18:06:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:06:42","slug":"microbial-advent-calendar-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aassie.net\/Pro\/microbial-advent-calendar-a-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbial Advent Calendar &#8211; A review"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][image_with_animation image_url=&#8221;861&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; animation=&#8221;Fade In&#8221; border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; box_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][vc_column_text]Now that I can move my neck properly again it&#8217;s time to have a look back on my Microbial Advent Calendar attempt. The exercise was to produce a small blog post a day, for 24 days, about a cool microbiology fact\/paper related anywhere from close to pretty far from the Christmas topic.<\/p>\n<p>With 17 out of 24 blog posts in December, I have a look back on how to improve this if I want to redo it next year.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner column_margin=&#8221;default&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1514539928812{margin-top: 2% !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_inner column_padding=&#8221;padding-2-percent&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#83d5ea&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Good&#8230;&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Anton%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;bounceInLeft&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<ul>\n<li>Read at least one paper a day\n<ul>\n<li>Important habit to get into for staying in touch with the science world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Small science-related writing every day\n<ul>\n<li>Never stop writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>One illustration every day\n<ul>\n<li>My way to partially stay sane in Academia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Improved knowledge\n<ul>\n<li>I got to discover a lot of cold-related microbiology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Having a small collection of premade bacteria drawings helped a lot\n<ul>\n<li>I will probably redo some stickers of them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bacteria are an important process of cocoa production!\n<ul>\n<li>Seriously&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Kept the blog alive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=&#8221;padding-2-percent&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#f48181&#8243; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;&#8230; and the Improvable&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Anton%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;bounceInRight&#8221;][vc_column_text]Most of the improvement would be related on how to improve the length of writing a post a day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start preparing a list before the 1st of December\n<ul>\n<li>Days where I already had a paper lined out where considerably faster to produce than others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t get sidetracked by awesome datasets\n<ul>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t really needed to have an animated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aassie.net\/Pro\/?p=756\">map<\/a> of the progression of the London Plague of 1664.<\/li>\n<li>I refrained from making a similar analysis of the chocolate production worldwide since 1962<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Find a middle point on how to discuss a paper\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t really have time to properly get into what bothered me in some of the papers I presented<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Manage my back\/neck better\n<ul>\n<li>Take care of yourself&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]All in all, I really liked doing this, even if it can be a little bit overwhelming when not prepared correctly. 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