Last June it has been ten years since I got my PhD, and in November it will be ten years since I started my faculty position at USFQ. To honor this anniversary, I have prepared a series of posts to…
I've been thinking recently about how the place where I work affects how I work. When I understand better how I work in various spaces, I can plan better what to do where. Most days, I work from my campus…
I've been reflecting lately on my work habits - the differences between working from home and working from the office, which work is best done where, and how to divide my time. But there's a category of work that is…
I still track how many words I write in a day. I use the PhDometer for this purpose, and when I work on a different tool (such as my tablet), I use the word count feature in MS Word. I…
I've had a few very busy months, and consequently had a hard time keeping up with my emails. I managed to keep up with some of it, but my backlog grew and grew, until I had nearly 400 emails that…
On Tuesday, I wrote about seven cognitive biases: what they are, and how they show up in the working lives of academics. Now that we are aware of these biases, what can be do about them? In today's post, I…
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…
I've written a fair number of review papers as well as review reports (as part of deliverables for projects) over the past few years. Over the years, I've settled on a methodology that I use for writing these papers and…
Today is my last post on how I work as a function from where I work. I've looked at working from home during an emergency (such as a sick child), as well as working from my campus office. In this…
Here's my template for the Fall semester! It is going to be a teaching-heavy semester again, as now I'm teaching a graduate course for 6 hours a week and an undergraduate course for 3 hours a week. The graduate course…
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