I'm here with another book review today! After feeling the need to write about "The slow professor", I realized I had not explicitly sung the praises of Cathy Mazak's "Making Time to Write". We also got the chance to interview…
"The Slow Professor" is a book by Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber that critiques the culture of speed and productivity in academia. The authors argue that the corporate university has created a system that prioritizes quantity over quality, causing…
Just like last year, I'm spending part of my summer semester in the Netherlands. For the first 3 weeks, I had 9 hours of childcare per day, leaving me 8 hours to work (and less when taking into account my…
Our brains like to trick us into making poor decisions. In today's post, I wanted to address seven cognitive biases I learned about earlier, and I wanted to show how these biases trick and influence academics. Here are the seven…
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 started going back to the gym in September, and have fallen into a comfortable routine by now. My current routine looks as follows: 4-5 days of strength training per week1-2 days of hiking (where I live, I can walk…
Although I don't have a fixed schedule for work on a daily basis, I wanted to share a typical day in the life. I'm combining my position as a full professor at USFQ with a part-time tenured assistant professorship in…
I was recently asked to give a few tips for data collection and analysis, so without much ado, here is what I've been recommending: Keep a log: Use a labbook or other form of log of your preparation, experiments, and…
I'm writing this blog post as I'm wrapping up a major research report - a research task that required me to put everything else to the side, buckle down, and do some major progress. For most of the time, I…
For quite a while, I was dealing with email by sorting emails in folders, and then addressing the emails in the various folders during various pre-assigned timeslots during the week (research emails, writing emails, admin, contacts & appointments, teaching emails,…