I'm back with a quick bonus episode on the small university journals that are publish open access without any article processing charge.Please check out AmeliCA

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.

In today's episode we do a Q&A. We start with a general update on what we are working on, what is going well, and what is not going well. Then, we address the following questions that came in through the PhD Talk blog:

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 e...

In today's episode, we talk about special issues: what are they, what is the value of special issue, and why should you consider editing a special issue. We also discuss the caveats and increasing bad reputation on special issues related to t...

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 st...

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...

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 pra...

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...

In today's episode, we talk about starting as a new faculty member. Phil interviews Eva about when she started as a faculty member at USFQ and TU Delft, and what her advice would be for new incoming faculty.We talk about how Eva found...

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

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 ch...

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 ...

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 dea...

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:

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 y...

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 bre...

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 Koopma...

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 Copenhag...

In today's episode, we interview Dr. Malorie Albee. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northern Michigan University with a PhD from Ohio State University. We learn about her career path, and the var...

In today's episode, we interview Maria Balaet. Maria is a computational neuroscientist at Imperial College London (final PhD year).  We learn about how she has wanted to become a scientist from a very young age and how she achieved moving ...

In today's episode, we first catch up on what we are working on, what is currently going well, and what we are currently struggling with.Then, we dive into the four questions that we received to address:In the spirit of the ...

In today's episode, we interview Jen Loch.  She grew up in Florida (USA) which encouraged her focus on a profession in marine science from a young age. She completed her B.S. in Biology from Florida State University, and M.S. in Marine Bio...

In today's episode, we look back on 2022 on a month-by-month basis. We reflect on what we have learned this year, what we would have done differently in hindsight, and what we hope to change in 2023. Finally, we also look at what we have upcomi...