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…
When I work in the Netherlands, I go to the faculty canteen with my colleagues for lunch and have an enjoyable lunch break. When I work in Ecuador, I don't have good habits for my lunch break. When I returned…
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…
Today's post is a guest post by Brittany Storniolo. She is a Content Marketing Strategist at Flowcite, and an academic writing expert. She holds a first-class Honours degree in Literae Humaniores from the University of Oxford and has been certified…
As I returned from my holiday last May, I realized that my work cycles through the following four phases: Returning from a break: When I return from a break, my mailbox is so full that I know I will need…
I've been wanting to write this post for a long time (since Summer 2018, to be exact), and now that I found this half-baked draft back in my folder with ideas, I knew it was time to finish writing out…
We're three weeks into October, and I just realized I did not send a September newsletter at all. This one sentence could be a summary of how my Fall 2021 semester is going. But for the sake of blogging, I…
Poll for academics of all ranks. Are you: — Dr Eva Lantsoght (@evalantsoght) July 5, 2021 A while ago, I ran a poll on Twitter to see which percentage of academics are parents. I received only 83 votes, so my…
Some time ago, I received this excellent question: How do you reconcile current system of having short term contracts in your 30s and the pressure in tenure track-like positions with having a baby? I had my daughter when I was…
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