Welcome to an episode of full-on navel-gazing! I've been moving my desk around our apartment a few times. Originally, I had an entire spare bedroom I claimed as my home office. Then, when my daughter was born, that spare bedroom…
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…
I virtually always listen to music while I am working - my noise-cancelling headphones help me to do what they are supposed to do: block out noise. And then I listen to music - a broad variety of music as…
After reading Digital Minimalism, I set out to do a 30-day digital detox. The social media network that felt the least satisfying to me at that time was Facebook, so I disabled my account. I put my phone on silent,…
You may have noticed that I'm less active on social media these days. I maintain my Facebook page, I reply to tweets, I send articles to those who request them on ResearchGate, and I reply messages on LinkedIn - that's…
Has anybody been counting how many days it's been since we got locked down? We know that in Quito, the stoplight remains in "red" (i.e. full lockdown) at least until the end of the month, with the exception for a…
Are you struggling with distractions, and in particular with the distraction your phone creates? There's a number of apps that can help in that case.In the past, I used Moment to get an idea of how much time I'd be…
I recently ran a poll on Twitter to learn how we start our days in the office. I usually make my coffee (I have to hurry so much to get out of the door in the morning that I don't…
Today I welcome Dr. Amber Davis as a guest author. Amber is a political scientist and PhD coach, who studied at the London School of Economics and Leiden University, and holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence.…
Today, I am inviting Michael Kulakov to share his best tips for writing papers. Michael is a freelance writer, who mainly works in the field of art, academia and education. He is also majoring in Linguistics. You can reach him…
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