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"As a serious academic, you should spend all your waking hours working on your research and you should not have a life or family", some seem to argue, or that seems to be the undercurrent of some of the "I've had 4 hours of sleep over the last 6...

Endlessly scrolling over the internet. Looking for that one fantastic new job. After every Google search query I became more and more demotivated. ‘I will never find that job’, I told myself. Everyday I googled for a specific job type, scrolling...

Academia has a dark side. Some scholars have published work that turns out not to be reproducible, as a result of data fraud or even complete data fabrication. You can read plenty of stories about such dishonesty on  Retraction Watch  - some are...

For the last few years, I've been consistently giving you my best advice. Today, I will give you a list of what not to do during your PhD years. Without me blabbering away with too much of an introduction, here are the 10 mistakes you should...

Activism in academia is a hot topic. Some argue that our only responsibility is to do the research, and publish our results - and the rest will sort itself out: the right people will pick up on our conclusions and turn this into policies and...