PhD student working on Metabolite Identification at Leiden University, TNO and the Netherlands Metabolomics Centre.
I post about my research, tips for PhD and graduate students, lifestyle design, and social media.
NextScientist.com is my other blog for Science 2.0
Do you want to have an alternative income while working as a scientist? Do you have some spare hours and you want to get extra bucks? Is your graduate scholarship not enough to pay for your lifestyle? Do you find exciting to work in different scientific and consulting projects in your free time? The following [...]
Finding topics for your posts Sometimes it is hard to come up with topics to write in your blog. If you want to attract readers, these topics should interest them. How can you find these topics? Good old Google can help you. In this post I will show you how I used Google Analytics, [...]
Just received this in an email form the University office. It is dangerous these days to be a scientist.
Nowadays everybody wants to be a social media expert, a social media manager, a social media marketing guru, a social mediaaarrgghhh!!! Enough, I got sick of so much crap going on in Twitter and other webz. Let me say this with a haiku I wrote in broiku.com You are passionate, social media manager, a fucking [...]
I would like to share with you an example of the motivation letter for PhD jobs I have used in the past. I have sent plenty of motivation statements like this one when I was searching for a PhD project in Europe. It pays off to start from a good cover letter, like this one, [...]
I added a new cover letter template to my collection of free stuff. Download the Cover Letter Template For Journal Submission (.doc) or check it out at Google Docs (you can download in different formats). If you find it useful, you are welcome to purchase Cover Letter Template For Journal Submission for $2. It is the same letter [...]
PhD Motivation And The 4 Hour Workweek In this post I will describe how you can boost your PhD motivation by adapting the ideas presented in The 4-Hour Workweek book by Tim Ferriss. I have read this book and there are some gems in it that I belief could be used in any PhD project. Focusing on what [...]
In November 2011 I will be giving a series of talks in UK, more precisely, 23rd and 24th November in Cambridge and 25th in London. Please contact me if you are in the area and want to come by to one of the meetings, or want to join me for a pint (or more) of [...]
When I started writing my MSc thesis I was told many times to be careful with the English comma when enumerating items. Well, I have to admit that I didn’t quite understand what was all that about. Recently I found a crystal clear example of how to deal with commas. Furthermore, I discovered it [...]
Feeling like your Professor is like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman? Then these quotes might sound familiar. If you ladies leave my group, if you survive recruit training… you will be a weapon, you will be a minister of science, praying for research. But until that day you are pukes! You’re the lowest form of life [...]
I would like to share two examples of a reference letter. Download them here. If you find it useful, you are welcome to purchase Reference Letter To Attend A Conference Type 1 ($2) and Type 2 ($2). They are the same letters that you get for free, I just give the option of a small [...]
Very few people will tell you the following things before you start a PhD, and you are going to need them, oh boy you are going to need them. Being aware of what it really takes to accomplish a PhD will help you decide if you want so badly to start the journey. 1. Main [...]
