As every year, I'm sharing here my 10 favorite albums of the year. 10. Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l420X9T1a6E&list=PLzhfgETbPF7iOFRBTuidB_fUSw_WuIS1V 9. Stromae - Multitude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO8NSL5Wyeg 8. A.A. Williams - As the moon rests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Iairanjms&list=PLvsYXqtYjMYcQMdCN35knkyozco_MMZkE 7. Rosalie Cunningham - Two piece puzzle…
Conferences can be busy times. We get overloaded with information. Maybe you find it hard to follow the talks at all, or maybe you find it hard after a certain amount of time. In this post, I share strategies I…
As I've read a number of literature reviews over the years - from my own researchers as well as others for which I sit on their committee or go no go panel - I've come to identify common mistakes in…
I started writing the draft of this post 10 years ago - so yes, I also procrastinate on things... Originally, I wanted to write about how you should learn German during (or ideally, before) your PhD. In my field, a…
My first PhD candidate graduated! Besides the major milestones that this event marks in my life and academic career, it was also the first time that I attended a defense in Brazil. So, as the defense-nerd that I am, I…
If you read certain productivity advice, we should be banging out work like machines throughout our workday. In reality, we ebb and flow through our day. We have times of the day when we can concentrate better, and times when…
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'm experimenting with some new boundaries around email. In particular: I have deactivated work email from my phone. I know that this is not a major thing and a lot of people (also on the PhD Talk podcast) have mentioned…
Writing is still one of my top priorities, but the way in which I write papers has changed over time. During my PhD and post-doc years, I would work on a first draft and then send this to my coauthors,…
As I recently served as a committee member for a doctoral defense, I thought it would be valuable to share here the various steps I went through in examining the thesis and the candidate: Read the thesis: I guess this…
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