Louise Walker Writes

My daughter's first school year has warped my perception of time. How has this year gone by so fast?

My eldest finshes her first year of school this week and I would like someone to tell me where the time has gone 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧✍️ #Substack

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Has influencer marketing broken through even my cynicism? How do we protect our kids from stealth social media marketing when we can't always detect it ourselves?

In my latest #Substack I explore how the explosion in influencer marketing - and its sometimes murky ethics - are seemingly wearing down even my cynical defences and what this means for #parenting in a digital world.

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Being a family of four is not what I expected Turns out two children equals two independent spirits, who knew?

In my latest #Substack post I discuss how my visions of spending lovely quality time together as a family of four have not quite married up with reality:

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Being a parent is a wonderful adventure. But sometimes you just need a break from that adventure. And the nature of parenting means that break is never really allowed to happen, as I explain in my latest #Substack: open.substack.com/pub/louisepw...

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I was recently reminded of a poem that I wrote last year when I was in the thick of preparing Anya for school while still navigating life with two children. I'm not a practised poet but thought this captured my feelings at the time quite well.

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I'm so pleased that I happened to spot Chien-Shiung Wu on a list of notable women in science and decided to make my latest #Substack about her. I'd never heard of her but she was an astonishing physicist and pioneer and I'm glad to be able to tell her story:

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In my latest #Substack post, the story of how a lost toy at bedtime reminded me of how the loss of treasured childhood things impacts us even in adulthood, and the pressure on mums to perform miracles for our children.

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Lessons form my toddler: the joy of a walk to nowhere Maybe we should all take 5 minutes out of our day to sit on the pavement for no reason

In my latest #substack you can read how I decided not to fight my 2 year old when she refused to move off the pavement because, actually, we didn't need to go anywhere and instead enjoyed a nice moment on a sunny day ☀️

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In my latest #substack I discuss how the story of Ruby Franke - a parenting influencer jailed for horrific abuse of her children - has made me more cautious about what I share about my family online

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My latest #substack article is about another pioneering scientist but with a modern story: Jennifer Doudna, who discovered a Nobel-prize-winning way to precisely edit DNA, CRISPR-Cas9

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I'm not a doctor anymore How a random conversation reignited my post-PhD identity crisis

In my latest #substack post I reflect on whether, after a decade out of the lab, I can really call myself "Dr Walker" anymore: open.substack.com/pub/louisepw...

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Tales of pioneering women: Henrietta Lacks A personal thank you to the woman whose cells I used during my PjD The text appears in front of an image of a statue of a woman. She is wearing a suit jacket and tie and a skirt. Her hands are on her hips.

My new #substack post is a story of a pioneering woman in science but this time it's personal. I used the cells taken from Henrietta Lacks in my research and given the history of how these cells were obtained, it's important to me to share her story:

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My latest #Substack post has just dropped, where I discuss how my overactive brain turns fun experiences with my daughter into pointless wondering about her future: louisepwalker.substack.com/p/overthinki...

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Tales of pioneering women: Barbara McClintock A genius geneticist who fought to be taken seriously in a man's world

I've just published my first tale of a pioneering woman. This is about one of my favourite scientists, Barbara McClintock, a genius who didn't let being a woman in a man's world get in her way:

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