Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Nicole Pierce in the How I Work series - the Academic Parents edition.General:Current Job: Nurse ScientistCurrent Location: Chicago, ILCurrent mobile device: iPhone 10Current computer: personal - MacBook Pro (2015); work - Dell Inspiron…
Today, I am hosting Adelina Genova to share her experience of defending her PhD during COVID-19. A recent graduate of Politecnico di Milano, Adelina is a bulging engineer heavily interested in renewable energy, data analysis and the intersection of these…
Yvette Williams, whom you may remember from this post on improving weaknesses within your dissertation is hosting a virtual writing retreat for PhD candidates. The information is below:This virtual writing retreat is open to all Ph.D. Candidates who are in…
Dear readers,Two people who have been featured on this blog, Olga Degtyareva and Yvonne Tse Crepaldi, are launching the "Get your writing done" sessions. If you struggle with your writing, these sessions may be just what you need. More info…
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…
Just as I thought I had online teaching under control*, we were advised that the new form of teaching for the summer semester would be with Blended Flexible Learning (BFL). Our university put together a 40 hour course on the…
I took a holiday from May 9th through May 17th. If we wouldn't have had a global pandemic, I would have traveled to Delft on May 8th. As this date was drawing nearer, and I saw the itinerary on my…
I was doubting if I should write this post at all. We all made goals for 2020, and then sars-cov-2 came around and laughed very hard. But at least, the first months of the spring semester were normal.My work goals…
I've noticed that I've been wanting to compare my weekly templates from previous semesters, but did not keep track of them. So I decided to put my weekly template for the Summer of 2020 here, for reference (week of June…
Has anybody been counting how many days it's been since we got locked down? We know that in Quito, the stoplight remains in "red" (i.e. full lockdown) at least until the end of the month, with the exception for a…
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