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Best albums of 2023

At the end of every year, I like looking back at the music I enjoyed during the year. So, here are my top 10 albums of 2023 (albums released in…

Surprisingly easy defense questions

Sometimes, doctoral candidates are taken aback when during their doctoral defense, a committee member asks a surprisingly easy question. There are, however, various reasons why a committee member may be…

PhD Defenses around the World – A defense in Scotland

Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming Hanan Hindy to PhD Talk. Hanan is a Lecturer at the Computer Science department at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences at…

2021 in review: How I spent my time in 2021

I've spent less time working in 2021 (about 2325 hours) than in 2020 (2620 hours) but more than in 2019 (2176 hours). If you look at the monthly totals, you…

How I spent my time in Fall 2021

If you look at my time logs for Fall 2021, you can see that the semester started normal, and then my working hours became more erratic (quarantine as my husband…

PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: Best Tips for the PhD Defense

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.…

Meditating every day

Those who have been reading this blog for a while, know that I've been dabbling in mindfulness meditation for a long while (and had been, already a decade before starting…

PhD Defenses around the world: A Defense in Pakistan

Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming Zarrar Salahuddin to share more about the PhD defense in Pakistan. Zarrar is currently a PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering, at the School…

Evaluation of my summer semester goals 2020

I lowered my expectations for the summer semester, but it still hit me hard that I had to teach every day for 8 weeks. Surprisingly, I had not included the…