At the end of your doctoral journey, you will be preparing yourself for your defense. In some systems, doctoral candidates can be involved in the selection of their examiner(s) or defense committee. If you are invited to have an opinion…
My goals for Spring 2022 were modest. I knew I had to focus on just getting through the semester and making sure to meet deliverable deadlines, and put everything else a bit on the backburner, as I am processing the…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about apps that I use every day, including computer programs I use on a daily basis. Today, I'd like to focus on programs that my most important computer programs - I may not be…
When you apply for a position outside of academia, sometimes you may find it hard to market the skills you've achieved during your PhD to a company. There are technical skills you achieve during the PhD: certain experimental techniques in…
As I was figuring out the logistics of my daughter's after-school activities, I posted a question on Twitter: How do people with full-time jobs manage to drive their kids to afternoon extracurricular activities?@Momademia — Dr Eva Lantsoght (@evalantsoght) February 15,…
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…
I recently came across the idea of "Minimum Viable Productivity" in Enough, the podcast. Minimum Viable Productivity, MVP in short, stands for the opposite of hustle culture, turning in work that is "good enough" every now and then, and creating…
As an organized person, my reputation is of being somebody who gets things done when necessary. The shadow side of this, however, is that a lot of work lands on me. The other day, as I was reading some work…
I have been writing about the financial side of doing a PhD on this blog over the years. During my PhD, my focus was on saving as much money as possible through budgeting and pinching pennies, and then in the…
Some time ago, Nature published a fascinating bibliometric study, in which they looked at the top 100 cited papers. The number 1 most cited paper, describes an assay on how to determine the protein content of a solution - it…
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