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Early-Mid Career Academics (Wtf are we doing?)
Posted On September 27, 2021

So I am not really a mid-career academic, but in a way it feels like I am because it seems that a PhD is early career academia, post PhD is …

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How to tackle reviewer comments
June 16, 2021

“Publish or Perish” is a wise old PhD/Academia proverb. As academics we are expected to publish our research, which involves tackling reviewer comments.... While I completely understand the purpose of …


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Forming an identity in academia
April 8, 2021

One of the unexpected challenges I have faced during my first year post-phd in academia is knowing how to form my own academic identity. After spending five years (honours included) …


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Featured Day in the life of: Kendra, PhD candidate in Toxicology
March 24, 2021

Hi! My name is Kendra Prutton, AKA @toxtalks_! I currently live in Denver, Colorado and I am a Toxicology PhD candidate at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. I am …


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Work Update
March 2, 2021

It has been a long time since I have provided an update post on the blog, and you have potentially noticed that my posts are less frequent, so I thought …


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2021 Goals for the Academic Year
December 18, 2020

As the year 2020 comes to an end, I am taking time to reflect on the year that was and set some goals for the academic year ahead. To publish …


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PhDiaries 12.03.2016
December 15, 2020

12th March 2016 Being a Saturday today meant that I didn’t do any work. This is novel as for my entire undergraduate experience I worked on weekends to support myself. I …


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PhDiaries; 24.02.2016
December 10, 2020

If you would like to read the previous entry click here. 24th February 2016 I don’t even know what day of the PhD journey it is. They are already starting to mould …


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My strategies for managing emails.
November 27, 2020

Emails are such an integral part of so many of our jobs. They can also be a cause of distraction and stress. I recently posted my tips for taking a …