During the exam periods, you're much more likely to find students in the library at 2am the night before the exam trying to push the last pages of their course into their memory than that you are likely to find…
In a recent post, I tried to call everybody on board for the STEM fields - everybody who is interested in these studies, regardless of their gender, religion, age, social status, and other differentiations we might make among people. But…
One of the things that I know I should do, and should do more often, is asking questions during sessions in a conference. Most of the time, I feel a little too intimidated by the presence of other more senior…
The best academic writing is easy to ready and understand, we all know this. But exactly how do we define a text that is easy to read and understand? Which writing style techniques can we apply to make sure we…
Some time during my PhD, while the tension started to rise, I got into the habit of counting my blessings before falling asleep. Initially, I just used this technique to divert my thoughts from the entire list of Everything 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…
If you haven't seen the slides of Joshua Drew's presentation on the Impostor Syndrome, you should take some time right now and check out the presentation. Joshua Drew gave this lecture on the Impostor Syndrome to first year MA students…
In the past, I used a time management system that was mostly based on scheduled appointments, and planning larger chunks of work over a number of days, and over time I mostly changed the tools that I used - my…
As much as I've always embraced computers, the internet, and then web 2.0, I was never a cell phone fan. I got my first cell phone when I was 15 years old, and the thing only served for making phone…
Last year, The New York Times published an important article asking "Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?". If you haven't read it then, go ahead and read it (I'm even keeping my post extra short today, so…
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