Dr. Workload, or: How I learned to be more productive and put self care first
Being a grad student is hard work, being a post-doc is hard work, being a professor is hard work. I
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Academia
Calling for a Friday e-mail amnesty
“Dear Applicant” or “Dear Author” is at any stage of your career a terrifying thing to see in your email account. Just those words instil near paralysing fear that could only be worse if the opening lines also included a clown face and a balloon.
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The disadvantage of being an unemployed academic
Time are tough. We’re not quite at a ‘Mad Max apocalyptic scenario’ tough, but things are tough. Countries around the world
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Explaining the academic system of self-inflicted overworking
The workloads in Academia are bad.
This is not news, this is a long complained about state of academia. In fact, it’s so much not news that it’s got to the point where if I say something so cliched on Twitter, people tell me to stop going on about it – particularly other academics, who I suspect are just annoyed to be reminded of it all the time.
How to be an undergrad – a terrible guide no one should follow
Becoming an academic is obviously the pinnacle achievement anyone can attain. It’s the job that all kids dream of and
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Conferencing for dummies
The title of this post might sound harsh, but it’s exactly how I felt the first time I was at a scientific conference. I hadn’t prepared very well for attending this conference, because I was focused on presenting at this conference.
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How to reply to reviewers: a terrible guide that no one should follow…
Despite my prolific blog output, I managed to find time earlier this year to write a paper. It was a
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How to spot a zombie in the lab
When I started at Cranfield Univeristy I had a brilliant idea. I wanted to look at my nice glass slides
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A new year checklist for every academic
A check list of things that every academic will be doing as they start the new year
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Academia in not very ‘aspirational’ posters
So this week an unnamed university has put up several ‘aspirational’ posters around it’s campus. These include the phrases such as “Confident & Ambitious” and “Agile & Responsive”, great aspirational buzzwords devoid of any actual meaning. So I figured what we need was some more realistic academic posters that better match reality.
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