Academia

an archive of posts in this category

Jul 13, 2014 Finishing two hours later
Jan 09, 2013 Units of expertise
Jan 03, 2013 PhD defense advice and resources
Dec 04, 2012 Thesis to committee
Nov 07, 2012 Heilmeier's Catechism
Oct 19, 2012 Toxic professional comparison
Oct 02, 2012 Benefits of having an iPad at a conference poster session
Apr 02, 2012 Reading research papers on the iPad
Mar 02, 2012 Keeping seminar questions classy
Feb 09, 2012 Breaking down your research problem
Jan 12, 2012 Corresponding authors who don't correspond
Jan 04, 2012 If it disagrees with experiments, it's wrong
Dec 16, 2011 This has at times hurt my career
Dec 07, 2011 Finding papers that use---but never identify---a specific software platform
Nov 29, 2011 Advice for new university instructors
Nov 17, 2011 How to get started writing your thesis in LaTeX
Nov 08, 2011 Numerical models and crystal balls
Oct 26, 2011 How to end a seminar or conference talk
Oct 05, 2011 Doing science in the open---thoughts from Michael Nielsen
Sep 20, 2011 Survival guide for your first year of graduate school
Aug 30, 2011 Liberating and future-proofing your research data
Aug 23, 2011 Does teaching make grad students better researchers?
May 24, 2011 Giving a conference talk John Wheeler style
May 13, 2011 How to build a great academic website
May 04, 2011 Why build a website to archive your research?
Mar 01, 2011 Are you actually good at what you do?
Feb 18, 2011 Putting the thesis into proper perspective
Jan 19, 2011 Why we have to produce correct practical design guidelines
Jan 04, 2011 Giving technical talks to a target audience
Dec 21, 2010 My conversion to the open scholar cause
Dec 03, 2010 Writing in an infinitely editable medium
Nov 30, 2010 Things you never say to a graduate student
Nov 17, 2010 Five books every graduate student should read
Nov 11, 2010 The choose your own adventure PhD
Oct 28, 2010 John Nash on sharing credit for ideas
Oct 25, 2010 Quote: believing experiments vs simulations
Sep 03, 2010 Why you should re-read your article
Jan 19, 2009 Engage challenge