Before I became pregnant, I imagined myself as a powerful pregnant woman. I was sure I would simply keep working with the intensity and concentration that I am used to. I was going to be in the gym every day…
Today's guest post is a contribution from Seán Mac Fhearraigh, PhD. Seán was a PhD student at University College Dublin & a post-doc a Cambridge University where he studied mechanisms of cell division. Currently Seán run’s an ELISA assay company…
My mom's main advice throughout exams and periods of hard workd was always: make sure you eat well and sleep enough. I've written about sleeping enough in the past, and I've mentioned you should eat well and not live on…
Oddly enough, one of the posts on this blog that keeps attracting a lot of visitors is my post on the use of binaural beats for studying and writing.Based on this post, I was recently interviewed by Cynthia Liza Gregoire…
Mostly unrelated - but, hey, here's a tucan :)Dear readers,I know I'm totally behind on replying questions in the Q&A series, but finally I'm back with a question I personally replied to a reader quite some time ago already.Some time…
Some time during my PhD, while the tension started to rise, I got into the habit of counting my blessings before falling asleep. Initially, I just used this technique to divert my thoughts from the entire list of Everything I…
For those of you who follow me on Twitter or Instagram, you might have noticed that in April this year, I joined the VeganChallenge. I mostly joined out of curiosity (I'm always in for doing a little experiment here and…
I used to haul a big package of cookies and coffee into my office to get some serious work done, but over time, I noticed that sugar and fat make me really sleepy. Way back in 2010 I already wrote…
Tenure, She Wrote recently published a post on exercise routines, and I really recognized my own experiences in that post.It's counter-intuitive, but it always happens: whenever I am burried in work, stressed out and need exercise the most, I start…
I recently came across an article that showed the metamorphosis of a 42-year-old woman who went from not drinking much water at all, to drinking 3 liters of water a day. She hopes to solve digestion problems and headaches, and…
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