A while ago I received a dissertation from Lodewijk Schmit Jongbloed. Of course you get that it isn’t that strange that I receive a dissertation now and then. What was special though were the acknowledgements in this particular dissertation. Why were the acknowledgments so special? Lodewijk used a metaphor: his…
Take the following ingredients.… The classic first words of every recipe. I received a recipe via Marc Koper on how to write a paper. He didn’t cook it up himself, but George Whitesides did, a Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. His recipe is intended for chemistry, but is also very…
Some days nothing works. You have tried everything, changed your work place, put on the right music to study, divided your work into smaller tasks and used the pomodoro technique. And still it doesn’t work. I have one more tip for you that you can use to change the bad times…
Open access, it is more and more the norm. You can now make open web annotations via hypothes.is. You can annotate with a book mark or chrome extension and also see what annotations others have made. In that way you can annotate together, for instance with people who share the…
Last week I wrote how we believe our own thoughts. Thoughts that appear when you are not feeling very well can result in such a train of thoughts that you start believing that you will never finish your PhD. This video explains how that works, how you basically create your…
“Will I ever finish my PhD?” I don’t know any PhD student who doesn’t ask himself this question. Depending on how you are feeling, a train of thoughts will occur after this question. In case you are feeling happy, this is what you might hear: “Of course everything will be…
