As always at the beginning of the semester, I set my priorities. Here’s what I will focus on: Submit four journal papers Work on deliverable of EU project Deliverables of fire safety project USFQ policy documents Proposal writing for TU…
My template for Fall 2026 is similar to what I've been using in past semesters - with the differences that I know I will get a lot of meetings slapped on top of it, that I will need to move…
As always at the end of the semester, I check in on my goals. Here’s how I did: Submit 3 journal papers: yes, I still manage to move my writing forward although more of it is supervision and collaboration EU…
As always at the end of the semester, I check the breakdown of my time. Below, you can find the breakdown. As always, I worked a bit less during the summer semester and also traveled between my institutions. Most of…
Over the past year, AI tools have become a regular part of my workflow. I have a subscription to both ChatGPT and Claude, and I use both platforms almost daily. At first, I treated them as more or less interchangeable:…
I have been lucky I guess recently with the work that I've sent in - two of my poems got published in the Eunoia Review (smitten and omnia tempus habent et suis spatiis transeunt universa sub caelo) and one got selected…
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…
Recently, I taught a four-hour workshop on time management. In a previous post, I already shared the contents of the workshop and my best tips on time management, so today I want to take a different angle: what it was…
I've written before about what I'm using AI for, first at the end of 2023 and then again in early 2025. Looking back, the list has not changed dramatically. What has changed is that my use of AI has evolved…
Work-life balance in academia is a topic I have been thinking about for many years. Since joining academia, I have combined multiple roles: researcher, lecturer, supervisor, wife, mother, and collaborator across institutions and countries. Like many academics, I have often…
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