If you look at my time logs for Fall 2021, you can see that the semester started normal, and then my working hours became more erratic (quarantine as my husband and daughter had covid, health issues, emergency travel to Europe,…
Some time ago, I received the following question from a reader (edited for anonymity): I have just found your blog and I am starting to read. I don't know exactly why, by I want to directly write to you a…
When I started working in Ecuador in 2013, there was no specified tenure and promotion system. As a result of changes to higher education in that period of time, such a system was developed over the subsequent years, and 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…
Becoming a parent is a life-changing event, and it also changes how one acts at work. For me, I clearly notice that becoming a parent changed me as a person, and also as a researcher and academic. Today, I want…
Going through my pending questions to address in Q&A posts, I found this short question: I recently sent an article to a journal and they turn to me and ask to precise the dates I accessed some reference I cited…
I received the following question through the blog (edited out some details to maintain anonymity): Dear Sir/Madam, With due Respect, I would like to request that kindly help me with some of your advice for obtaining admission to the PhD…
And rankings and papers are not the most important. I hope that my students will remember me as fondly as I remember my daily supervisor from my PhD - I hope my legacy is to be compassionate, helpful, guiding, a…
Some time ago, I received the following question (edited for anonymity): I am an aspiring PHD student and i want to know how i can narrow down my research topic. it has various aspects to it. i am confused on…
The 2021 version of the Ioannidis ranking of scientist was published a few weeks ago on the Elsevier page. The description of this dataset is as follows: Citation metrics are widely used and misused. We have created a publicly available…
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