Today marks ten years since I started this blog as a budding PhD student. In the past then years, I got my PhD, did three post-docs, got tenure in Ecuador, got tenure in the Netherlands, married, became a parent, and…
I ran a poll on Twitter earlier this year to identify how we view blogging as academics. We may consider it as part of our work, as something we take pride in, as something that we feel like our duty…
Today, I have the pleasure of inviting Gaia Cantelli, one of the authors of a collaborative blog at her university, to share her experiences. Gaia is a fourth-year PhD student in the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics at…
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…
Dear readers,For quite some time now, I've been faithfully posting each Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at 6pm Central European Time, with a short break in the flow of posts during the Winter holidays. Regardless of how busy work got, I…
A number of months ago, Gera Nagelhout, from Tabacco Control Research, nominated me for a Dardos award. I was very flattered when I read about this, but then I didn't really follow up with this for quite some time (sorry!).As…
On Tuesday, September 14th in 2010, I started PhD Talk. At that time I didn't have much of a defined goal for the blog. The original purpose of the blog, was the following:"However, there are always better ways to do…
As a starting point for today's post, I've chosen Maria Konnikova's excellent blog post on "Why grad schools should require students to blog".Previously, we've looked at the benefit of blogging for your scholarly work, and how it can be valuable…
Dear lovely readers,Some of you have wondered what my plans are for PhD Talk now that I have graduated and am not a PhD student anymore, so I thought a small glimpse into the future is in place.My most honest…
My thesis, after the help of Mr KittyDo you have a plan for improving your writing?Or do you simply assume that one glorious summer morning, you will open your laptop, start typing your dissertation, and finish happily a few months…
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