I've been reflecting lately on my work habits - the differences between working from home and working from the office, which work is best done where, and how to divide my time. But there's a category of work that is…
I still track how many words I write in a day. I use the PhDometer for this purpose, and when I work on a different tool (such as my tablet), I use the word count feature in MS Word. I…
I've had a few very busy months, and consequently had a hard time keeping up with my emails. I managed to keep up with some of it, but my backlog grew and grew, until I had nearly 400 emails that…
On Tuesday, I wrote about seven cognitive biases: what they are, and how they show up in the working lives of academics. Now that we are aware of these biases, what can be do about them? In today's post, I…
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've written a fair number of review papers as well as review reports (as part of deliverables for projects) over the past few years. Over the years, I've settled on a methodology that I use for writing these papers and…
Today is my last post on how I work as a function from where I work. I've looked at working from home during an emergency (such as a sick child), as well as working from my campus office. In this…
Here's my template for the Fall semester! It is going to be a teaching-heavy semester again, as now I'm teaching a graduate course for 6 hours a week and an undergraduate course for 3 hours a week. The graduate course…
At the start of every semester, I outline my goal for the upcoming semester. Without much fanfare, here are my goals for the Fall 2023 semester: Submit 4 papersHave the first draft of the thesis of one of my PhD…
I recently wrote about how it is normal for many PhD candidates to feel the post-PhD blues, and how you can recognize this. Today, I want to give you some ideas on how you can cope with the post-PhD blues…
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