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2025 Jul: What I Learned about Gardening from my PhD in Computer Science 2024 Mar: What I Learned about Professional Networking from Joining the Mafia 2023 Jan: Joy in Research 2020 May: ICLR 2020: My first virtual conference   Feb: How do you break into a career in machine learning? 2019 Feb: The three PhD Comic strips that are actually good research advice   Jan: Know thyself. The New Year's resolution that underlies all productivity advice 2018 Dec: How to Present a Scientific Poster at a Mega-Conference   Sep: Stress in Research. Part V: If you really are an Impostor, then it's not a Syndrome   Aug: Ill-Judged Britishness, and Self-Deprecation within a Power Dynamic   Jul: Stress in Research. Part IV: A Tsunami of Logistics   Jun: Social Skills in Context, or How being a Professor is Kind of Like Being a Mafia Hitman   May: Stress in Research. Part III: The Trouble about Freedom   Apr: Stress in Research. Part II: Research Worth and Self-Worth   Mar: Stress in Research. Part I: The Tournament and the Axe 2017 Dec: Travel a lot? Here's how to stay organized, like professors do   Nov: To PhD applicants: A word about department rankings   Nov: How to read a research paper   Oct: My special-est email folder   Sep: Making unblinding manageable: Towards reconciling prepublication and double-blind review   Sep: The not-so-great checked vs carry on debate   Aug: A first lecture on time management   Aug: Happy Blogoversary to me   Jul: Context switching   Jun: Where your brain wants to Go 2016 Dec: On creating a "companion web site" for talks 2015 Nov: GTD Made Simple: Why I think the Internet needs one more blog post about "Getting Things Done"   Sep: Why you should scrunch your face when you think   May: My Top Conference Attendance Tip   Apr: Viva la voce   Jan: Early to rise, early to read research papers 2014 Dec: Taste in research, and the paradox of deciding what not to work on   Nov: Mnemonic poetry and Guy Fawkes night   Nov: Business Cards and Me   Aug: A Threat to the British Monarchy   Jul: Principal Component Model of Coffee Shops   Feb: A Suggestion for Scotland 2013 Sep: Ubiquitous capture and the ideas file   Aug: Academic ranks in the US and UK   Aug: Kitten   Jul: Proposal Writing and the "Fuck Yeah" Factor   Jun: And can you teach me how to talk real slow?   May: Future Work   Apr: Jokes in lectures   Mar: The cure for boring meetings   Feb: Coffee versus beer   Feb: My new favourite pages on Wikipedia   Jan: The first rule of academic politics   Jan: How I Make Coffee   Jan: A simple trick to encourage lecture participation   Jan: About to graduate with your PhD? One more tip. 2012 Nov: Happy Pi Day! (belated)   Oct: A Very British Thanksgiving   Oct: Note to Self   Aug: Spot the Scot   Aug: Lies and Taxes   Aug: Principles of Research Code   Aug: Software I Like   Aug: Reflecting on a New Computer   Aug: Converting Fahrenheit into Celsius... The Smart Way