On September 14th 2020, this blog celebrated its 10th birthday. Blogging for 10 years makes me something like a dinosaur left over from the days when blogging for the sake of blogging was more popular than now. If I count…
Some time ago, on one of my posts, I received the following comment/question. Hi, I have read your schedule. And I draw some kind of inspiration from it. Currently I am into research. I am pursuing Masters. I just want…
Today marks ten years since I started this blog as a budding PhD student. In the past then years, I got my PhD, did three post-docs, got tenure in Ecuador, got tenure in the Netherlands, married, became a parent, and…
Today, I have the pleasure of inviting Gaia Cantelli, one of the authors of a collaborative blog at her university, to share her experiences. Gaia is a fourth-year PhD student in the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics at…
Happy Holidays, dear readers!I hope you all can take some rest, let go of your research, and recharge your batteries. I'll be spending time with my family in law, trying to talk a lot on Skype with my family and…
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…
Today, I'm asking you a little bit of your time, to fill out the following questionnaire. As I'm still in doubt what to do with PhD Talk after the PhD, I'd love to ask you guys your opinion. Please click…
On Tuesday, September 14th in 2010, I started PhD Talk. At that time I didn't have much of a defined goal for the blog. The original purpose of the blog, was the following:"However, there are always better ways to do…
Dear lovely readers,Some of you have wondered what my plans are for PhD Talk now that I have graduated and am not a PhD student anymore, so I thought a small glimpse into the future is in place.My most honest…
I have some lovely news to share with you, my awesome readers... PhD Talk is featured in Online PhD Program's list of Top 100 Thesis and Dissertation references on the web.Even better, the blog has earned a badge for that…