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As every year, I am here with my top 10 of albums! I am not embedding the Youtube videos anymore, as I assume most of you use streaming services anyway. Here it goes: 10. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out…

At the end of every semester, I look at the data in my Toggl reports to see how I spent my time. Here’s how I spent my time in Fall 2024: Research proposals: 25.90% Conferences: 11.07% Teaching: 10.69% Service: 10.17%…

As always at the end of a semester, I reflect back on the goals I set for myself, and how I did on these. Here's how I did with regard to my Fall 2024 goals: Submit 4 papers: Two journal…

I have been thinking a fair amount recently about how easy it has become for me to give presentations - from webinars, via teaching, over conference presentations, and presenting at meetings, to nice keynote lectures (at least, I hope mine…

As I wrote in my previous post, I recently managed to Dock a Container Ship (i.e submit a proposal for a large, competitive grant as consortium lead). It has been a bit of a learning curve, to say the least.…

As I recently submitted a monster of a proposal, I have, as usual, spent some time navel-gazing over the experience. It was a massive project: 16 partners, a complex topic related to infrastructure resilience, and a highly competitive funding call.…

I'm not sure if quiet quitting is still a thing these days, but I have been thinking about the meaning and timeliness of leaning in recently. As a cursory comment: my feminism aligns much more with the ambiguity reflected by…

As I am working on getting funding for my next cycle of projects, I am reflecting on how I select my collaborations - both funded and unfunded ideas to work on. Here are a few questions I tend to ask…

As I have given a few keynote lectures over the past years, I wanted to reflect for myself on what has worked quite well with the audience. In general, I think keynote lectures are a different beast from general conference…