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🧭 Remind yourself that feeling doubt is common
🧩 Explore beyond academia: Attend talks and meet PhDs in non-academic roles
📝 Reframe your PhD: Translate your experience into skills language
📄 Rewrite your CV for industry: Emphasize outcomes
🤝 Build your community
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I’ve earned my PhD — what now?
A chemist faces a classic early-career dilemma: what should they do next, and how do they start?
www.nature.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
📚 Don’t make it a review paper: Cite only what shows the question matters
📘 Don’t make it an encyclopedia entry: Save deep details for Methods or Discussion
🌐 Don’t make it only about your narrow question: Connect to the broader problem or debate
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/w...
What your Introduction section isn’t
Today, the fourth and final instalment in a short series inspired by bad papers I’ve read (some of them, I’ll admit once again, my own). I’ve let myself rant about what a Methods sections shouldn’t…
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🧾 Audit the last term: look at alignment between goals and actions
🎯 Set goals for the next term
⏱️ Build a gentle and sustainable routine
🌿 Create distance—physical or psychological

mmarginalia.substack.com/p/make-the-m...
Make the most of winter break
Mostly good advice...I think
mmarginalia.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Save OpenEvidence’s AI-powered citations directly to your library and grow your knowledge base with every read. paperpile.com/blog/save-fr...
New Integration: Save papers directly from OpenEvidence - Paperpile
Paperpile’s new integration with OpenEvidence makes it easier to save papers from the popular AI-powered clinical evidence site.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
⏱️ Schedule 90-minute writing sessions to create consistent focus time
🎯 Set a 5-minute micro-goal at the start of each session
📵 Remove distractions by closing tabs and silencing your phone
☕ Create a repeatable ritual
💬 End with a 2–3 minute reflection

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Academic writing was a struggle—until I formed a peer group with other graduate students
“It was the spark I needed,” this scientist writes
www.science.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The potential upside of AI peer review is huge: LLMs can check statistics, flag plagiarism, and verify citations, but but they can’t yet replace the practical judgment humans bring to spotting what’s actually novel and feasible, via @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI reviewers are here — we are not ready
Artificial intelligence promises rapid and polite feedback on papers — but we must first review the reviewer.
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If an academic blog disappears, that knowledge is permanently lost, leaving a gap in the historical record of how research and ideas were shared in the digital age, via @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
#AcademicSky
The case for preserving scholarly blogs - Impact of Social Sciences
Poor preservation threatens the scholarly blogging ecosystem. What makes scholarly blogs sustainable and how can these practices be promoted?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
👂 Be a good listener: Hear their ideas, protect their trust, and share their excitement
🤝 Show up during stressful times: Remind them of their strengths
🚀 Lift them up: Recommend them and open career doors
📬 Stay connected: A quick message goes a long way
matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
How to be a better friend in academia
Some thoughts....
matthiasrillig.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM