Spring 2021 was another full pandemic semester for me. Since April, we have a full curfew on the weekends, which really limits our options for going out and getting some fresh air. Looking at how I spent my time, I…
Today, I have the pleasure of inviting Dr. Dastan Bamwesigye to share his experience of defending a PhD in pandemic times. Currently, Dastan is a PostDoc researcher at the European scientific Insititute (ESI), Spain, and a researcher at Mendel University…
As always before the start of a new semester, I have developed my weekly template for the summer, which you can see above (I did take out the names of my students with whom I have recurring meetings). Here are…
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Casey Thomas Jakubowski, PhD. He is the owner of CTJ Solutions LLC, designed to move you and your team from okay to Outstanding! We help you tame your conflict dragons! After 20 years…
I recently received the following question, which I think is excellent to address in a Q&A post (anonymized): I would like you to address this question for young researchers: How to accept and discriminate applications from graduate students looking for…
I was recently interviewed by Dr. Horacio Pérez-Sánchez about my research and research habits. You can listen to the episode here (in my best attempts at speaking Spanish, which is my 5th language, so bear with me...):
I wrote this post when we were about one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, but somehow forgot to hit "publish" and just found this in my folder of drafts. By now, the situation in Quito has only become worse. We…
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 I'm navigating what it means to be a mid-career academic, I've been facing new challenges. I consider mid-career here as the post-tenure years. While I'm a full professor in Ecuador, I still have two levels of full professor to…
A while back, I was asked about the computer programs and apps that I use every day. It's something Rico and I discussed in a recent podcast, and in that episode, these were the computer programs and apps that I…
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