Welcome! I’ve been writing this blog, once in a while, for a long time. Perhaps you would like some suggestions for where to start.
Here are two series of posts that I think that you might like best.
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Stress in Research: A five-part series trying to understand why research is so stressful, and what we can do about it. These seem to be the posts that were most well received.
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Painfully Extended Metaphors: Trying to make observations about research by metaphors to other activites, like board games, music, gardening, and organized crime. These posts are about as poetic as I can get.
Going beyond that, this has basically become a blog of advice for researchers, PhD students, and faculty. The posts I like best, I have separated out into:
- Advice for PhD Students
- Advice for Professors
- Advice for Researchers: Not specific to career stage. (For young and old alike!)
Alternately you can just go to:
- All the Advice: Don’t say you weren’t warned.
A final starting point is
- The Silly Posts: Some of these are my personal favorites, but they might not be yours.