All thanks to imposter syndrome and the first rejections, we end up believing all of our peers are secret super geniuses and will soon discover that we are, in fact, dumb dumbs. But in reality, we are all dumb dumbs in our own ways and often need lot more help than we ever want to admit.
Hello It’s been a little while since I last updated the blog. In fact, I think it’s been a lot of a while since I spoke to the community at all! Sorry about that. Since my last update on what we’re going with ErrantScience things have been very, very busy. Read more
“Naively optimistic” – this was my opening to a blog post I wrote for Errant Science five and a half years ago, when Overleaf was approaching its fifth anniversary. Five years later, Overleaf is now ten, and after leading the team there for close to a decade I’ve recently moved Read more
Over the last few weeks our weekly blog posts have covered all sorts of things, from lunch (very important) to software for thesis-writing. We also asked if anyone would like to write a guest post – please do get in touch if you’re interested!
It’s that time: you’re finally thinking about writing your thesis. Well you’ve probably been thinking about it since the second you began your thesis, but now you’re actually thinking about the physical action of writing it. How will it look? What chapters will I need? How the heck am I Read more
As an academic or researcher you are the top of a pyramid of human knowledge stretching back thousands of years. Your knowledge is the result of a litany of people before you building one small piece of the very large puzzle that you are now solving. Now, whether you are Read more
Last week I wrote (as I do every week) an article. The article was made up of ~600 words and quite a lot of grammar and punctuation. As was pointed out to me on Facebook, some of these words and grammar were not used correctly. Obviously this is the worst Read more
The UK have had a couple of ‘mini heatwaves’ over the last few weeks. What this means in reality is that big yellow ball in the sky shows itself, we (typical Brits) go bananas and try to get outside at every available opportunity, and remember too late that the hot Read more
Joe woke some indeterminate amount of time later feeling simultaneously freezing and in a terrific amount of pain. He tried to sit up with an excellent impression of an unfolding broken step ladder as he realised that various parts of him were now pretty well locked up. He eventually managed Read more
