Putting the Virtual Pen Down: Reflections from 2017–2022 ✍️📚✨
This blog was my space to think out loud between 2017 and 2022—a place to process big transitions like moving from my PhD to postdoc life and making sense of the pandemic’s upheavals.
This blog was my space to think out loud between 2017 and 2022—a place to process big transitions like moving from my PhD to postdoc life and making sense of the pandemic’s upheavals.
Am 7. Oktober 2022 fand an der Philipps-Universität Marburg das Nachwuchskolloquium der AG Sprache in der Politik statt. Hier eine kleine Zusammenfassung aus den Tipps und Ratschlägen!
Writing is hard. Some days, it gets even harder. Have you tried this?
Writing is hard. Some days, it gets even harder. Have you tried this?
While my academic writing is often all over the place, I have also developed several ideas to put myself in writing mode.
Maybe you’re returning to your book or dissertation after months of not touching it. Or maybe everything was fine these last few days and you suddenly cannot write anything at all.
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Ce billet répond à la question en apparence banale mais très épineuse : Quand ai-je assez lu ? Ou, formulé autrement : comment sais-je que je peux arrêter de lire et me mettre à...
These last few weeks, every time the sun was suddenly showing up, even for less than an hour, you would find me in a park a few minutes away from my flat, trying to...
Certains jours, écrire coule de source. D’autres, écrire est un calvaire. Mais alors, quels sont les paramètres qui entrent en jeu dans l’écriture et comment trouver “son” moment pour être dedans ?
Ce n’est qu’en dénouant nos angoisses entremêlées et nos anxiétés souvent émotionnelles s’abritant derrière des prétextes scientifiques (“je n’ai pas assez lu”, “je n’ai pas collecté assez de données”) qu’il me semble possible de (ré)apprendre à (aimer) écrire.
I believe that sharing is caring, that emotions belong to academic writing and that it’s okay, that your productivity never determines your worth, that showing vulnerability makes us more connected.
The connection is not obvious, for sure. Want to know more?
Aus aktuellem Anlass, like they say in German: A friend of mine is writing her first abstract (yeeyyy), asked for some advice, and I sent her a few links collected these past few years.
For the last month of this definitely weird year (aka 2020), I am gathering tips on academic life: writing, organizing, archiving, resting, enjoying.