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Since starting my PhD, I have found my new ‘pretending to sleep’ trick - which has now become ‘working on my research.’ I’m still pretty keen and motivated and actually…
- Delena-Mae Caagbay
- December 13, 2018
I always knew there was something different about me. I was in 5th grade and I still had problems spelling my name. In exams where I had to write if the answer was “b”…
- Claudia González
- December 13, 2018
Most people only see the published papers and don’t know about the several rejections and revisions leading up to the final publication. So, here, I will give you an…
- Jente Ottenburghs
- December 13, 2018
Before I went back to school, I had a list of things I wanted to do outside of my research. I didn’t want to be one of those people who became so consumed with their…
- Sharon Bolanta
- December 13, 2018
A journal editor discovers an overlap between one of his journal’s published articles and two other articles published in different journals. The editor suspects that…
- Kakoli Majumder
- December 13, 2018
Now that you already know why I became the “Lousy Librarian” in the Twitter-sphere, I’d like to talk about the real world too – where I go through the day-to-day…
Major funders and librarians in China have stated their intent to support and join Plan S, an initiative by a group of European funders to ensure that by 2020 all…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- December 11, 2018
The social sciences are often considered irrelevant as a field of study in India. So, when I decided to pursue the social sciences after completing my secondary…
- Arathy Puthillam
- December 11, 2018
As a young academic and visiting lecturer, I’m often asked by students, “How did you do it?” So here's a sneak-peek into my secrets; which are in fact, not really…
- Harriet Lowe
- December 11, 2018
When I arrived to assume my new position at Nagoya University, I was the sole parent of an infant. The university’s support measures failed to cover the needs of…