Some musings about email
I have started to have a different mindset around dealing with email. While I originally tried to avoid as much as possible spending time in my mailbox, I've come to understand that replying messages is part of my job. It's…
Q&A: How to get paid for writing
As I recently wrote about PhD candidate with a side hustle, I received a follow-up question: Good. I have read this article Eva and found it interesting indeed. In my case, I have undertaken part-time classes for undergraduate students in…
PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer – How to write a research statement
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…
Appealing an editorial decision
Some time ago, I successfully appealed to an editorial decision in name of my coauthors. While I don't want to name and shame other academics here, it is necessary for this story that the article was submitted to a Frontiers…
Expectations versus reality
Browsing through my archives, I came across some of my hopes and expectations I had 10 years ago about my faculty position. My ideal at that time was to spend 4 days a week on teaching and research, and send…
Q & A: Feeling lost in the PhD
As I'm working through my backlog of questions, I came across this question which (I think) will resonate with many PhD candidates: Dear Eva,I am a second year PhD student in Informatics and I have a background in Mathematics. But…
My Spring 2022 weekly template
As always before the start of a new semester, I have developed my weekly template for this spring semester, which you can see above (I did take out the names of my students with whom I have recurring meetings). My…
My goals for Spring 2022
Before the start of every semester, I make a list of my ongoing tasks, my priorities, and plan my weekly template. Based on these, I develop my goals (or semester priorities) for the semester. Spring 2022 is starting off with…
Starting as a new professor – reflections on my experience
I've been meaning to write a post on the first year as a new professor since 2014, when I was a new professor and read a very timely post from "tenure, she wrote" on what it is like to be…
Goals for 2022
Just like every year, I am here with my list of goals :) For reference, here are my goals for 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, and 2021 (looks like I forgot to blog about my goals for some years). As last…