The Sunday scaries are that uneasy feeling that starts to creep in sometime on Sunday afternoon or evening. You may have had a perfectly nice weekend, but suddenly your thoughts shift toward Monday: the emails waiting for you, the meeting…
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…
As a journal editor, I see manuscripts at a very early stage of the publication process. As Editor-in-Chief of Structural Engineering International, I check every paper that has passed the initial administrative check before deciding whether it should move forward…
I am an editor for a number of academic journals, and I am also the Editor-in-Chief of Structural Engineering International. In that role, I read every paper that makes it through the initial checklist by the editorial assistant. I assess…
Over the past years, more and more academic publishers have started offering journal transfer services. The idea sounds convenient enough: your paper gets rejected from one journal, and instead of starting a new submission elsewhere, the publisher offers to transfer…
One of the realities of an academic career is that international mobility is often part of the journey. You may move abroad to start your PhD, relocate for a postdoctoral position, accept a faculty appointment in another country, or move…
Over the past weeks, I have been reading a number of proposals for potential candidates to our PhD program. Reading proposals is always interesting: you get a glimpse of what prospective doctoral candidates are excited about, which problems they see…
With AI tools becoming part of our everyday academic lives, it is tempting to ask: do we still need to read? If an AI tool can summarize a paper in seconds, compare arguments across articles, and produce a neat overview…
Part of the planning and preparation for each semester is sitting down and asking myself: how can I make this semester work? Not in an ideal-world, perfectly-color-coded, never-interrupted way, but in a way that reflects the reality of academic life.…
I have written before about how I, as a PhD supervisor, onboard my PhD students. In that post, I shared the checklist I use to make sure a new PhD candidate has the information, access, and structure they need to…
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