I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Lauren Drogos for the academic parents edition of the "How I Work" series. Dr. Drogos is an Alberta Innovates Health Solutions Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Calgary in the Department of…
I recently ran a poll to see if meditation is popular for academics. We've seen the research that it's good for us, so it seems, as slightly more than half of the respondents meditate at least every now and then.…
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Andrew Watson for the "How I Work" series. Andrew is a second year Doctorial Researcher at the University of Glasgow. By day Andrew is a Data Analyst for an Insurance Provider and by…
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 ran a poll to see how fit academics are. The poll received a fair number of votes, and I'm glad to see that more than half of all respondents work out at least once or a few times per…
As every year, I present you with a list of the 10 best books I read over the past year. I don't make a list of the best books of the past year, since I read both recent and not-so-recent…
As every year, I'm presenting you my 10 favorite albums of 2018. I must say, I liked a lot of albums that were released this year - full list on my Spotify (note: two times Anneke van Giersbergen as guest…
My colleagues and myself recently published a paper titled "Stop criteria for proof load tests verified with field and laboratory testing of the Ruytenschildt Bridge" and presented this at the IABSE Conference 2018 "Engineering the Past, to Meet the Needs…
My colleagues and myself recently published a paper titled "Full-size field test of prestressed concrete T-beam bridge" and presented this at the European Bridge Conference in Edinburgh.The abstract is as follows:In the Netherlands, approximately 150 prestressed T-beam bridges with cast-in-between…
A post about summer holidays in December? Why, Eva, why? Well - I ran a poll about summer holidays a while back and I schedule posts months ahead of time, so that's why this post is here. but let's take…
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