I recently ran a poll to see if most of us have clean or messy desks - or something in between. I work at four desks: my home, my office in Ecuador, my office in the Netherlands, and my room…
On March 14th, I gave a presentation for the opening of the academic year as part of the XV week of Postgraduate Studies for the School of Engineering at Universidade de Sao Paolo in Sao Carlos. The topic of this…
Lately, I've been receiving emails from Elsevier, telling me that they are sending take-down notices to ResearchGate for papers that I have privately stored on the RG servers. These are not papers that are ready for download at one click…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
While I was reading The Shallows I ran a poll on Twitter to see if others recognize themselves in what this book mentions: that all the reading we do online results in us being unable to concentrate on long stretches…
Today, I am interviewing Dr. Robert Lepenies in the "How I Work" series. Dr. Robert Lepenies is a research scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and a member of the Global Young Academy. He holds a Ph.D from…
Today, I have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Yvette Williams. Dr. Williams is the CEO of The Esteemed Scribe, LLC. Her company offers copy-editing, proofreading, ghostwriting, and blogging services. Among her specialties include editing services for Ph.D. Candidates who are…
I ran a poll to learn how much of our time is spent on service activities. I was surprised to learn that "more than 21%" is the answer that received most votes. In fact, for myself I thought it would…
I was recently asked to record a snippet on Open Science, for the Open Science MOOC.Here's the statement that I prepared to organize my thoughts (I ended up rephrasing this as I talked for the recording, but the idea is…
I ran a poll on Twitter to see what is academics' favorite form of exercise. By a small margin, cardio wins the poll. Here's the wake of the poll:
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