After my super-busy first semester of teaching, I'm quite happy that my teaching-free summer semester is here.More than just not having classes, I'm also away from USFQ this summer, and spending time doing research in my good old research group…
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…
A couple of months ago, I started using TuneUp on my personal laptop. Since it is taking ages to get the desktop computer in my office first delivered and then buffed up with all the software I need (7 months…
The day I finally achieved my Inbox Zero I thought I had my email under control, and from now on, managing my email would be much easier.I had not the slightest idea of how wrong that thought could be.On an…
Now that I finished my first semester of teaching, I've been breaking my head on one question that keeps coming back to my mind, and that's the following:I realize there are as many learning styles as there are students in…
Today I have the pleasure of hosting Emily Newhook for a guest post on apps for busy students. Emily is an outreach coordinator for the MHA degree program from The George Washington University, MHA@GW. Outside of work, she enjoys writing,…
The best tweet of the week/month must have been Sam Sherrington sharing a visual display of the results of a survey on the use of Twitter with 116 marine scientists:“@SagefemmeSB:@PhDForum @socphd @Phil_Baty infographic re researchers' use of twitter pic.twitter.com/NXKtuJlOs2 @ACBmidwife”>visually…
I recently read a post on MindBodyGreen about "The Daily Habits Of Highly Creative People", which included the following infographic:What can we learn from these great examples for academia?1. ExerciseAlmost all great minds used to go at some point during…
As a follow-up of the list of ten things I enjoy about Ecuador, I wanted to write the counterbalancing post about the things I miss about Europe. I've moved so many times by now that, even though I still consider…
As I've now been working and living in Ecuador for 8 months, and have not been writing that much about Ecuador itself, I thought it was time to correct that by making an overview of 10 things I enjoy about…