I recently ran a poll on Twitter to see the stress levels of fellow academics. The results are not pretty, with the majority of the respondents reporting stress beyond what is acceptable. Tell me about your stress levels in academia…
Today I am interviewing Margaret Breidenbaugh for the "How I Work" series. Born and raised in Ohio’s first capital, Chillicothe, Margaret Breidenbaugh completed her undergraduate work in music composition and vocal performance at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. A search…
I recently ran a poll on Twitter to ask people how much time they spend on reviewing a paper. For me, it usually takes me roughly 4 hours in total, so I was wondering if my experience is in line…
Today, I am interviewing Dr. Stephanie Zihms in the "How I Work" series. Stephanie is currently working as a postdoc in Carbonate Geomechanics in the Institute of Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt University. Her research tries to understand why rocks deform…
Today, I am hosting an academic who would prefer to remain anonymous.Current Job: Associate ProfessorCurrent Location: Pseudonymless City, USA (at least that’s what I call it on the blog. It’s a somewhat rural college city, popn’ 200,000)Current mobile device: iPhone…
Today, I am interviewing Jaime for the "How I Work" series. She is a third year PhD student at a US-based university studying biological engineering. Though most of her free time is consumed spending time with her three young children,…
I ran a poll on Twitter earlier this year to identify how we view blogging as academics. We may consider it as part of our work, as something we take pride in, as something that we feel like our duty…
Today, I am hosting Dr. Colleen Clemens in the "How I Work" series. Colleen, an associate professor of Non-Western Literatures and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, earned her Ph.D. in Post-Colonial Literature at Lehigh…
Today, I am interviewing Rebecca Gelding for the "How I Work" series. Rebecca is a PhD student investigating music cognition, specifically what is going on in the brain as people imagine music. She began part time in Feb 2013, as…
Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Annelies Van de Ven in the "How I Work" series. Annelies started out her academic career studying classical archaeology at the University of St Andrews, but soon found her way into reception and…
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