As you may have heard, MDPI is now considered a predatory publisher. While academics have been debating MDPI for a while now, I have published in MDPI journals in the past (Fibers, Materials, Buildings, Sensors, Education Sciences, Societies, and Infrastructures),…
While I always analyze how I spent my time in the past semester or year, I never really look at the broad categories. I want to put a further lid on work and quit overwork . I still have 30…
Continuing my conversations with AI, here's another question I asked ChatGPT. I now asked it about the holy grail of academia: how to get tenure as a professor. Below, you can find the AI answer in italic and my comments…
I was recently thinking about how my work and daily tasks have changed over time. To make this more specific, I looked at my agenda from five years ago (one of the advantages of using a digital calendar; I can…
I'm continuing my conversations with AI in today's post. I now asked ChatGPT how to excel as a researcher. You can find the reply of the AI in italic and my comments on this in regular. To excel as a…
In my weekly template, I typically only reserve time for my teaching and my recurring meetings. However, there are many additional meetings that come up all the time. Lately, I feel that I don't have enough buffer on my weekly…
As an editor and reviewer, I have a few pet peeves related to academic writing. One of my main pet peeves is this: Authors who use the same sentence length throughout their writing. Seriously, academic writers: varying sentence length improves…
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…
Of course, we are all wasting our time these days playing around with ChatGPT, so a number of my posts are now my commentary on things ChatGPT writes. I asked ChatGPT how to excel as a professor, and you can…
I recently asked ChatGPT what the best schedule for a professor looks like, and this is what I got: A professor's workday may look a little different than other professionals, given the nature of their role. Here's a sample timeline…
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