(PhD) Life Wisdom from Bouldering. Part IV
Our posts on “wisdom from bouldering” have turned into quite a series. I’m surprised myself each time that bouldering has something more to teach me about life. But I guess you’ll always take away...
Loving bones, climbing stones. Stories of everyday phd/postdoclife
We all could use some more productivity, right? And productivity is such a big topic in the corporate world. They have all those coaches and self-help books but there aren’t nearly as many resources for Academia. That’s where we come in trying to adapt some popular productivity advice for the realm of Academia.
Our posts on “wisdom from bouldering” have turned into quite a series. I’m surprised myself each time that bouldering has something more to teach me about life. But I guess you’ll always take away...
Normally, I would start with wishing you a healthy, successful and overall adventurous new year, but we have reached February already, so… I hope your first weeks in 2022 have been good and you...
Today’s post is on how to not go crazy in crazy times. Don’t be afraid. It’s not a rant full of negativity. It’s not about quarantine or lockdown or vaccination or any of those...
So, there was a time, some years ago – I was part of the studies representatives in Archaeology, and one task of this job was student counseling before the new winter semester was about...
You might have seen it before – November came and suddenly all social media is happy and full with #movember, #nanowrimo and #acwrimo, the latter meaning Academic Writing Month. So, another challenge, it may...
This blogpost evolved from different situations where I was asked to draw a map or to do a GIS-based analysis of ancient stuff (inscriptions, tombs, Roman provinces, finding spots etc.). In one of my...
What actions are meant by the term “academic writing”? Just the actual writing aka you hit the keyboard fiercely and the whole thing sounds like machine-gun fire? Or is it reading, lit review, crying...
Today, after not posting for a long time, I’m back with a gadget review – a category I invented before I went off the blogging grid for a while. Today’s review will be for...
Sarah started this chain of thought, when writing about her weird habits to start off a productive work session. You can read about it here. We all spent a long time in our homes...
Today I wanted to share a few thoughts on how we probably all have developed weird habits to start our work sessions or work days. I definitely have, already long before Covid. Although I...
We all know about its existence. We fear it. We are called to arms against all the odds never in our favor, when it comes to Peer Review and facing the comments of our...
I have to apologize, because I totally forgot to post this entry yesterday. I am on holiday right now and during the weekend I tried to relax and chill. I was really good at...
Maybe you stopped by because of my title: Positive Procrastination? Sounds challenging, right? Everybody of us has experienced the powers of procrastination (I really like the Wikipedia entry on it), in all its ways,...
As I told you in my post on our 2020 (which you can read here), I will tell you about our 2021 – at least, about the things we can be certain about. Even...
Welcome to our last blogpost in 2020, the most craziest year we ever experienced and lived! And survived, I might add. The pandemic controlled our moves this year, as it may seem. It is...