PhD Talk
A podcast in which we discuss PhD life, research mechanics, and the tools for doing research.
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I'm back with a quick bonus episode on the small university journals that are publish open access without any article processing charge.
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A few grumblings on why it does not make sense to try to speed up our literature review using ChatGPT - a little nugget of Opinions while we prepare for the next season of the podcast.
Then, we address the following questions that came in through the PhD Talk blog:
- What does your work setup look like? What does your setup look like at home and in the office, and how do you divide your time between both
- How do you take care of your ...
In today's episode, we interview Dr. Kalin Kiesling. She is a nuclear engineer at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Lab where she develops the software that other engineers use to design and analyze new nuclear reactor concepts. She earned her PhD in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022, from which she also holds a bachelors and masters in nuclear engineeri...
In today's episode, we interview Emily Hoppe. Emily is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland. Before starting her PhD, Emily practiced as a staff nurse and psychiatric nurse practitioner at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland for eight years. Her clinical practice focused on the mental health of young children with beh...
In today's episode, Phil interviews Eva about grant writing. We learn about Eva's various sources of funding, the funding she has applied for in the past, and what has worked and what not. We also look at how helpful the feedback and grading of a proposal can be.
Then, we get into our best practices for grant writing. In summary, these are:
- Try various different funding sources
- Try both personal ...
In today's episode, we interview Jacqueline Shaia. She is a second year PhD student at Case Western Reserve University in the Clinical Translational Science PhD program. We learn about how she decided between going into the career path of a practicing physician and researcher, and how her background shaped her choices in her research and methods.
Her current work focuses on ocular disorders, especially the rare idiopa...
In today's episode, we talk about presenting at conferences. We look at what's the point of conferences in the first place, and how digital conferences can recreate the opportunities for networking (or not), and for whom.
We also look at conferences as a genre, what the difference between writing a conference paper and presenting this conference paper is all about. This topic leads us into our best tips for prese...
We talk about how Eva found her faculty position, and how her teaching load at USFQ has changed over time. We also talk about the way in which professors are evaluated at various universities and how that ref...
In today's episode, Eva interviews the podcast co-host for season 3: Phil Creswell. Phil has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, a Master of Social Sciences and a PhD from Uppsala University in Sweden. His PhD dissertation Chains of Trust: Networks of Persistent Resistance in Digital Activism is an ethnography of the hacktivist scene in (and around) Anonymous and its activism that looks at participation and c...
I asked ChatGPT how I can reduce my workload as a professor, and I have Some Opinions on that. Here’s what AI recommended me (in italic), and what I think about that (regular).
As a professor, reducing your workload can be challenging due to the many responsibilities you have.
You bet, AI, there’s a lot on my plate.
However, here are a few tips that may help:
Bring it on…
- Prioritize tasks: Make a list of your tasks and prioritize t...
When are growing into a position of becoming an independent scholar, an important element is to start new collaborations. You are no longer expected to work exclusively with your colleagues at your institution or with your former supervisor. You are expected instead to spread your wings and develop new collaborations.
Unless you are planning to shut the door behind you and work in solitude for the rest of your days, it will become n...
In today's episode, I answer the following questions:
- How much time does it take to write a paper?
- How can you remain focused on writing a paper over weeks on end?
- How can you quickly pull together a conference paper when the deadline is near?
This episode is loosely based on:
- How to write a paper in two days
- How much time does it take to write a paper?
In this episode, I talk about good habits to develop during the PhD, the post-doc years, and the tenure track years.
You can find the associated posts here:
- Good habits to develop during the PhD
- Good habits to develop as a post-doc
- Good habits to develop on the tenure-track
Another bonus episode!
We’ve all been in this awful situation: you need to write a paper or work on a chapter of your dissertation, but 20 minutes pass, and you can’t write anything. You go surf the internet for a little bit, return to your white screen and blinking cursor, and quickly get sucked into the internet again. Suddenly it is 5pm and you have not done anything. An entire day wasted without doing anything…
In today's episode, I share my methods for staying engaged with the presentations at conferences.
Here are my seven strategies:
- Schedule smart: We all have a maximum capacity of how much learning we can do without a break, and how much learning we can do in a day. Ideally, we have this information available because we know how we study. If not, run an experiment at a conference and track your attention per half hou...
I’ve found what really works for me to write an abstract in roughly 30 minutes. As I was googling “How to write an abstract” in the past, I came across this article by Philip Koopman which caught my attention.
What I most like about this website is the questions it has in the different sections your abstract should contain:
Motivation: Why do we care about the problem and the results?
Problem statement: What problem are you trying to ...
A very quick bonus episode today to thank all of those who made season 2 possible!
In today's episode, we interview Jenny Orlando-Salling. Jenny is a PhD Fellow in Law at the University of Copenhagen. Originally from Malta, Jenny has lived, studied and worked in a number of countries eventually settling down in Copenhagen, Denmark where she raises her children. Prior to her PhD, Jenny served as a diplomat in Brussels (at the EU) and Egypt. She holds degrees in Law and Political Science from UCL and the LSE....
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