As every year, I share my list of best albums that came out this year. I have also curated my list of favorite albums (compiling over 500 hours of new music) on Spotify and Spotify compiled this list of my…
As every year, I'm sharing with you my top 10 of books I read in the past year. At the time of writing this, I've worked my way through 61 books, which is roughly the same as in 2019, but…
I've been writing about finding more joy in the past, and on how my focus changed from trying to log one enjoyable thing per day to creating memories.As I am writing this, in a pandemic that will stretch on for…
I recently ran a poll on Twitter to see how much or how little sleep academics are getting. The majority of the respondents of the poll (70%) are getting between 6 and 8 hours of sleep per night, as recommended.…
Selfie with bff, my personal cheerleaderToday, I have the pleasure of hosting a guest post by Jenny Lendrum. Jenny is a PhD candidate and Rumble Fellow in the department of sociology at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI USA. She…
I originally wrote this post for the Bizwacks Unlimited, but since this blog has gone offline, I decided to repost it here.Most graduate students are hard on themselves: long hours in the laboratory and soldiering through no matter what, while…
After hosting Jenna's guest post on self-care in academia, I was contacted by John Elmes from the Times Higher Education who got interested in this topic. He asked me and Jenna a few additional questions, and used this material for…
Another long since overdue post in the category of Questions and Answers!Some time ago, a PhD student sent me the following question:Good afternoon. I'm PhD student. Thanks for the nice articles in this blog. Would like to share with you…
Today, I'm inviting Silvia Tavares to share her thoughts on self-care in academia. Silvia is a Brazilian researcher living in New Zealand. She submitted her PhD in Urban Landscape at Lincoln University last July, and just after that she headed…
Today, I'm inviting Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden to share her perspective on self-care in academia. Rebecca is a musicologist who researches sound as politics since the eighteenth century, particularly musicians during the French Revolution. Her recent work has been published in Studies…
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