Time for a quick Q&A again today! Some time ago, I received the following question:Congratulations Eva!I would like to ask you what method are you using to reproduce the crack pattern (see Fig. 12 in your paper)The answer is quite…
Petition handing to minister Bussemaker and to the VSNUIn the Netherlands, there are currently no formal regulations on the effect of the time away from research during pregnancy and paternal leave. Pregnancy and paternal leave are dealt with at a…
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…
It's time for another Q&A post. This post discusses the CDs that assist my writing. Some time ago, I received the following message (edited for anonimity):Hi .you are wrote in http://www.evalantsoght.com/2014/01/silver-linings-binaural-beats-for-study.html that "I have the same results with some favorite…
Today's guest post is a contribution from Seán Mac Fhearraigh, PhD. Seán was a PhD student at University College Dublin & a post-doc a Cambridge University where he studied mechanisms of cell division. Currently Seán run’s an ELISA assay company…
My mom's main advice throughout exams and periods of hard workd was always: make sure you eat well and sleep enough. I've written about sleeping enough in the past, and I've mentioned you should eat well and not live on…
I recently got an interesting question, of which I'd like to share my answer with you.Here´s the question:Hello,This is a random cry for help but I am writing my dissertation and just moved back in with my parents at the…
We recently published a paper about the probabilistic analysis of the failure mode of the Ruytenschildt Bridge in Engineering Structures. You can download the paper for free for a month before it goes in hiding behind a paywall.The abstract is…
Today, I am inviting Lana Sinapayen in the "How I Work" series. Lana was born near Paris but raised in Martinique, a small French island in the Caribbean. She stayed stayed in Martinique until the end of high school, then…
We recently published a paper on the field and laboratory testing of the Ruytenschildt Bridge. This bridge was tested to failure in two spans, and then beams sawn from the bridge were tested in the lab to study the behavior…
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