In a recent post, I tried to call everybody on board for the STEM fields - everybody who is interested in these studies, regardless of their gender, religion, age, social status, and other differentiations we might make among people. But…
One of the things that I know I should do, and should do more often, is asking questions during sessions in a conference. Most of the time, I feel a little too intimidated by the presence of other more senior…
The best academic writing is easy to ready and understand, we all know this. But exactly how do we define a text that is easy to read and understand? Which writing style techniques can we apply to make sure we…
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…
If you haven't seen the slides of Joshua Drew's presentation on the Impostor Syndrome, you should take some time right now and check out the presentation. Joshua Drew gave this lecture on the Impostor Syndrome to first year MA students…
In the past, I used a time management system that was mostly based on scheduled appointments, and planning larger chunks of work over a number of days, and over time I mostly changed the tools that I used - my…
Last year, The New York Times published an important article asking "Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?". If you haven't read it then, go ahead and read it (I'm even keeping my post extra short today, so…
Now that I'm combining duties in Ecuador and the Netherlands, I've been spending some time thinking about how I streamline the process of dividing my time between two parts of the world - without having to be missing documents all…
After my super-busy first semester of teaching, I'm quite happy that my teaching-free summer semester is here.More than just not having classes, I'm also away from USFQ this summer, and spending time doing research in my good old research group…
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…
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