Beginning a new adventure – Epigrammetry’s 2021
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...
Loving bones, climbing stones. Stories of everyday phdlife
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...
You all may remember my posts from last year on the topic “Diss-cembering” – a word play on “Dissertation” and “December” (How to Diss-cember and Diss-cembering to the End). In December 2019 I finished...
I recently tracked my work and ouput using a few challenges such as #100DaysofDH and #100DaysofDissertation. Now I wanted to share some of my experiences. This is, like so often, a reflection that got...
As you have already learned in Astrid’s recent post, we have been testing Brendon Burchard’s High Performance Planner. I had initiated this experiment in a particularly nasty stretch of Corona lockdown demotivation back in...
Some desperate corona evening recently, I ended up scraping some library records of Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Since I obtained some information by web crawling which I really didn’t need in the first place,...
So, I did it. I finished my challenge of 100 days of dissertation on Friday. I wrote about the idea for this challenge here in this post. You can see all my steps on...
Can you believe it? We are celebrating out 1st anniversary! We are not that sure when we made out first online apperance, because our blog here, our Twitter account and our Instagram account show...
I recently watched this bouldering video which addressed, among many other things, the question of what it means to train like or be a professional. I thought this is actually very important for the...
… and no, I have actually never done that before. I mean, all by myself. Alone, in front of students. Give me a room filled with international experts in my field, let me present...
Today, we wanted to share with you a list of things to do while on Corona lockdown, except for well the obvious thing – that is WRITE YOUR DISSERTATION. So without further ado, here’s...
I have talked about digital detoxes and work life balance a lot on this blog over the past year (such as this, this, this or this). But I haven’t stopped there. In fact, I’m...
We have read and loved Karen Kelsky’s The Professor Is In (NY 2015), so this is the start of a series of book review blog posts. The book is so rich in information and...
Today I wanted to address a pretty vulnerable topic which is especially virulent in women in Academia: feeling paralyzed by your own high expectations and the fear of failure they induce. Academic failure, even...
Today I want to talk about motivation and the last long days of corrections, revisions and re-writing of your thesis or dissertation. When I first stumbled on the #100daysofdissertationchallenge on Instagram, I thought about...
Hey there, guys! It’s time for part II of our PhD/Life Wisdom series concerning wisdom learned from bouldering. In Part I, Sarah told you about the following points we learn from climbing walls: 1....