All Posts
The entire blog, by year. You may prefer to see these organized by tag.
2024
2023
2020
2019
- The three PhD Comic strips that are actually good research advice
- Know thyself. The New Year's resolution that underlies all productivity advice
2018
- How to Present a Scientific Poster at a Mega-Conference
- Stress in Research. Part V: If you really are an Impostor, then it's not a Syndrome
- Ill-Judged Britishness, and Self-Deprecation within a Power Dynamic
- Stress in Research. Part IV: A Tsunami of Logistics
- Social Skills in Context, or How being a Professor is Kind of Like Being a Mafia Hitman
- Stress in Research. Part III: The Trouble about Freedom
- Stress in Research. Part II: Research Worth and Self-Worth
- Stress in Research. Part I: The Tournament and the Axe
2017
- Travel a lot? Here's how to stay organized, like professors do
- To PhD applicants: A word about department rankings
- How to read a research paper
- My special-est email folder
- Making unblinding manageable: Towards reconciling prepublication and double-blind review
- The not-so-great checked vs carry on debate
- A first lecture on time management
- Happy Blogoversary to me
- Context switching
- Where your brain wants to Go
2016
2015
- GTD Made Simple: Why I think the Internet needs one more blog post about "Getting Things Done"
- Why you should scrunch your face when you think
- My Top Conference Attendance Tip
- Viva la voce
- Early to rise, early to read research papers
2014
- Taste in research, and the paradox of deciding what not to work on
- Mnemonic poetry and Guy Fawkes night
- Business Cards and Me
- A Threat to the British Monarchy
- Principal Component Model of Coffee Shops
- A Suggestion for Scotland
2013
- Ubiquitous capture and the ideas file
- Academic ranks in the US and UK
- Kitten
- Proposal Writing and the "Fuck Yeah" Factor
- And can you teach me how to talk real slow?
- Future Work
- Jokes in lectures
- The cure for boring meetings
- Coffee versus beer
- My new favourite pages on Wikipedia
- The first rule of academic politics
- How I Make Coffee
- A simple trick to encourage lecture participation
- About to graduate with your PhD? One more tip.