Today, I am interviewing Jeff Weidner for the "This is How I Work" series. Jeff is a structural engineer originally from Maryland, though he has lived in Pennsylvania for 15 years. He is married to an amazing woman who is…
Today, I'm interviewing Dr. Eric Martell for the This is How I Work series. Dr. Martell obtained a BS from North Central College in 1993 and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1999. His main area…
Today, I have invited Auriel Fournier to share with us how she works. Auriel is a Phd Candidate in the Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Arkansas. She has a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology and…
Today, I'm starting a new series of interviews at PhD Talk, inspired by the "How I Work" series on lifehacker.com. Our first guest is Kelly Dillon. Kelly is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication at The Ohio State…
I recently got the following question, on which I'd like to expand here.Could you share your PhD schedule?Throughout my PhD, I consistently started my day around 8am, which was often the starting time of my experiments, and which is the…
In my vision of the future, blogging is as much a part of the academic world as peer-reviewed journal articles. There are several reasons for blogging, and blogging as well as more online sharing, could tackle publication bias.But at the…
Reading as part of the creative process? I've discussed reading, and reading loads at length in a previous series of posts discussing archiving, understanding different levels of reading and keeping up with the output. Reading a lot and keeping up…
In a first post on this series about the creative process, we looked at the conditions you need for creativity. In this post, we focus on a long-term way to find more creative solutions to research questions. Some people might…
Inspired by my recent theoretical work, I'd like to dedicate a series of posts to the creative process.The first idea I'd like to discuss is which conditions you need for creative work? Before you get started on developing a new…
During my recent holidays, I realized that I am not absorbing much of all the information that the internet constantly pours over me. Usually, I have several tabs open (mailboxes, news, social media sites, blogs,..) which continuously pour out information…
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