Why the PhD is the most un-zen phase in your life
I’m currently travelling for a teaching gig and just had this epiphany (which ultimately was a long time in the making, I guess). The PhD phase is the most un-zen thing you will ever...
Stories of everyday phd/postdoclife between old stuff and digital data.
I’m currently travelling for a teaching gig and just had this epiphany (which ultimately was a long time in the making, I guess). The PhD phase is the most un-zen thing you will ever...
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...
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,...
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...