I love The Professor Is In 2.0 (Book review)
Last November, the Professor Is In, 2.0 was published. Compared to the first version we had previously reviewed on this blog (The 7 Best Tips from ‘The Professor is in’ (Book review)), the 2025...
How to Academia - A blog on academic selfhelp
Read about how we deal with our time problems, how we manage to stay somehow healthy (We are all mad here, just trust the Hatter), what we do to relax, how we manage to be social withput cutting sleep short – how we manage to stay alive in this crazy big world called Academia.
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1. PhD Life (top-level category containing everything)
2. Academic Jetset
3. What’s it like Series
4. Work-Life-Balance
Last November, the Professor Is In, 2.0 was published. Compared to the first version we had previously reviewed on this blog (The 7 Best Tips from ‘The Professor is in’ (Book review)), the 2025...
Time-blocking my way through postdoc life IV – my routine to plan my academic life This is a post about my planning routine. I promised to write about it and share my time-blocking experience...
As you may know, I like watching what’s happening in the personal development sphere and wondering how that might apply to my life in academia. One idea I currently keep seeing in the self-help...
Recently, for some reason I don’t remember, I happened across a paper on so-called hot streaks in academic careers. This led me down a rabbit hole into research on success in academia, of which...
Who doesn’t love some good productive morning routine content? In this blogpost, I will explore what I think this has to do with PhD advice. PhD students helping one another online or even PhD...
Because I work in Digital Humanities and part of my job is thinking about the ethics behind AI, I get asked a lot how I use AI for academic writing. Today I finally want...
Academic writing is challenging to teach—especially when you try to explain it to someone who doesn’t yet have a frame of reference. Reflecting on my own experience, many writing tips I heard early on...
Academic writing is a central part of life in Academia, especially when you’re a PhD student. It’s basically the single most important thing that your success is going to depend on. However, at least...
As part of our goal to have more short posts with quick takeaways, today I’m sharing some key insights from a few books that have had a huge impact on my thinking around work,...
In today’s post, I’m reflecting a bit on my writing journey over the past year, and what it feels like to revisit old journals and unfinished posts. I’m writing this from my favorite surf...
In the last post on applications, we discussed the importance of not disqualifying yourself. I mentioned a few ways you could accidentally do this, but I also emphasized the value of identifying potential weaknesses...
The last post offered some advice on better understanding academic CVs. Now I’d like to highlight one critical mistake I’ve made in the past and recently observed in others: handing someone a reason not...
As you may remember, I did a blog post series about applications in academia roughly one and a half years ago. Now, with stipend committee duties back on my plate, I’ve realized there are...
Time-blocking part III – how to get into a new system Time-blocking is still one of the leading productivity hashtags out there – vlogs, blogs, books, coaches – everyone talks about time-blocking, amongst all...
Welcome, dear readers. Happy Holidays! I hope you have a nice and quiet Christmas break – no matter what, where, and with whom you celebrate. Have a good time, stay healthy, and get a...