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One year of 'A Happy PhD': What happened in 2019

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The four disciplines of executing your PhD (book extract)

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Avoiding avoidance and other mental self-sabotage in the PhD

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Tiny idea: Use the Regret Test for daily decision-making

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Facing addiction to social media in the PhD

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Addiction and the PhD (book extract)

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A Monday Mantra duo: The best advice about research that an artist never gave me

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Quickie: A simple trick to get better answers to your open questions

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Breathing through the PhD: Breathwork in the doctorate

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Reviewing doctoral well-being research (study report)

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Avoiding avoidance and other mental self-sabotage in the PhD

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Quickie: How many PhD students are anxious or depressed (or will drop out) worldwide?

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A Monday Mantra for times of coronavirus

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Risk factors for depression and anxiety in doing a Ph.D.

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The second reason why I write this blog

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Is doing a Ph.D. bad... for your mental wellbeing?

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A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

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Supporting different types of students to complete their PhD (Study report)

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What kind of doctoral student are you? Motivational profiles and completing the PhD (Study report)

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Ask A Happy Ph.D. - Student edition

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Quickie: Preloading productive meditation (book extract)

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Monday Mantra #4: On attention

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How to be a PhD student

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Quickie: How many PhD students are anxious or depressed (or will drop out) worldwide?

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Supporting different types of students to complete their PhD (Study report)

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What kind of doctoral student are you? Motivational profiles and completing the PhD (Study report)

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Choosing not to drop out: a view from self-determination theory

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Who drops out of the Ph.D.?

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Navigating authorship: a condensed crash course in setting authors for your paper

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Supporting different types of students to complete their PhD (Study report)

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What kind of doctoral student are you? Motivational profiles and completing the PhD (Study report)

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Avoiding avoidance and other mental self-sabotage in the PhD

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Monday Mantra #4: On attention

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Latest News from A Happy PhD

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One year of 'A Happy PhD': What happened in 2019

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Quickie: Preloading productive meditation (book extract)

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The four disciplines of executing your PhD (book extract)

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Four scheduling strategies of successful PhD students (book extract)

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Addiction and the PhD (book extract)

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (II): The science of breaks

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Micro-breaks and two Monday Mantras to supercharge them

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Take your holidays… the right way

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Breathing through the PhD: Breathwork in the doctorate

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Breathing through the PhD: Breathwork in the doctorate

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A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

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Cultivating the progress loop in your PhD

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Report from the trenches: of calendar tricks and time scarcity

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Big PhD questions: Should I do a PhD?

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Making important decisions about the doctorate (II)

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Defusing task conflict in the PhD

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The three most common productivity challenges of PhD students

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PhD tool: Map out your PhD

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ChatGPT's doctoral productivity advice... and four ideas the algorithm will (probably) not give you

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Chronobiology addendum: A neurobiologist's guide to a healthy and productive day

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (II): The science of breaks

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Micro-breaks and two Monday Mantras to supercharge them

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (I): Circadian rhythms

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Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindness

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Swath and Dive: A pattern for PhD defense presentations

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Getting into the weeds of writing

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Writing exercise: sitting with uncertainty

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How I revise my journal papers

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Writing research papers series

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Monday Mantra: On scientific communication and research in general

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PhD tool: Pitching your research with the NABC model

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My Ten Commandments of scientific writing

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How I write papers (Part 2)

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How I write papers

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Baking papers, or why scientific writing is so difficult

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Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindness

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Supporting different types of students to complete their PhD (Study report)

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What kind of doctoral student are you? Motivational profiles and completing the PhD (Study report)

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Quickie: How many PhD students are anxious or depressed (or will drop out) worldwide?

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Supporting different types of students to complete their PhD (Study report)

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What kind of doctoral student are you? Motivational profiles and completing the PhD (Study report)

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Choosing not to drop out: a view from self-determination theory

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Who drops out of the Ph.D.?

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A Doctoral Consortium format for times of COVID

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Tips for attending scientific conferences

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PhD tool: Pitching your research with the NABC model

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Defusing task conflict in the PhD

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The Create/Consume Hypothesis: A simple rule for more effective and valuable PhD work

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Am I normal? An intro to mental health in the doctorate

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How to be a PhD student

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Quickie: How to be more mindful

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A Monday Mantra for times of coronavirus

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A Monday Mantra duo: The best advice about research that an artist never gave me

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Intervision: Unblocking yourself... with a little help from some friends

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Quickie: Preloading productive meditation (book extract)

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The Create/Consume Hypothesis: A simple rule for more effective and valuable PhD work

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Quickie: A simple trick to get better answers to your open questions

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More effective group decision-making meetings

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A Monday Mantra duo: The best advice about research that an artist never gave me

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Monday Mantra #4: On attention

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On cultivating (and reining) curiosity

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Tiny idea: Use the Regret Test for daily decision-making

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Intervision: Unblocking yourself... with a little help from some friends

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Big PhD questions: Should I do a PhD?

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More effective group decision-making meetings

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Making important decisions about the doctorate (II)

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Making important decisions about the doctorate (I)

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Quickie: Preloading productive meditation (book extract)

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Four scheduling strategies of successful PhD students (book extract)

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Swath and Dive: A pattern for PhD defense presentations

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Breathing through the PhD: Breathwork in the doctorate

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Reviewing doctoral well-being research (study report)

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Avoiding avoidance and other mental self-sabotage in the PhD

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Facing addiction to social media in the PhD

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Quickie: How many PhD students are anxious or depressed (or will drop out) worldwide?

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Risk factors for depression and anxiety in doing a Ph.D.

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Is doing a Ph.D. bad... for your mental wellbeing?

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A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

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PhD tool: Map out your PhD

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PhD tool: The CQOCE diagram

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Journaling for the doctorate (II): How to journal effectively

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Journaling for the doctorate (I): Types and benefits

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Intervision: Unblocking yourself... with a little help from some friends

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A hiatus... and more BIG PhD questions

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Big PhD questions: Should I do a PhD?

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Making important decisions about the doctorate (II)

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Making important decisions about the doctorate (I)

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Swath and Dive: A pattern for PhD defense presentations

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Facing addiction to social media in the PhD

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Addiction and the PhD (book extract)

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Quickie: How many PhD students are anxious or depressed (or will drop out) worldwide?

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Supporting different types of students to complete their PhD (Study report)

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What kind of doctoral student are you? Motivational profiles and completing the PhD (Study report)

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Choosing not to drop out: a view from self-determination theory

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Who drops out of the Ph.D.?

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Getting into the weeds of writing

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Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindness

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Happiness in the lab series

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Happiness in the lab, part 3: Engagement

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Micro-breaks and two Monday Mantras to supercharge them

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A Monday Mantra duo: The best advice about research that an artist never gave me

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Navigating authorship: a condensed crash course in setting authors for your paper

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (II): The science of breaks

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Supervisor Quickie: the Post-It Feedback Method

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Ask A Happy Ph.D. - Student edition

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Supervisor Quickie: the Post-It Feedback Method

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Is Doctoral Productivity Bad?

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Tiny practice: Beating procrastination with The Right Now List

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ChatGPT's doctoral productivity advice... and four ideas the algorithm will (probably) not give you

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Breathing through the PhD: Breathwork in the doctorate

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Tiny idea: Subtraction

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Tiny practice: Granny's rule

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A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

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Quickie: Preloading productive meditation (book extract)

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The four disciplines of executing your PhD (book extract)

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Four scheduling strategies of successful PhD students (book extract)

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Chronobiology addendum: A neurobiologist's guide to a healthy and productive day

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (II): The science of breaks

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Defusing task conflict in the PhD

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The three most common productivity challenges of PhD students

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Micro-breaks and two Monday Mantras to supercharge them

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (I): Circadian rhythms

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Writing exercise: sitting with uncertainty

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Monday mantra #3: When you have too many open fronts

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Productivity tip: the Pomodoro technique

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Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindness

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PhD tool: Map out your PhD

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Micro-breaks and two Monday Mantras to supercharge them

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Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindness

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Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindness

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Happiness in the lab, part 4: Resilience

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Intervision: Unblocking yourself... with a little help from some friends

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More effective group decision-making meetings

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Tiny practice: Granny's rule

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Chronobiology addendum: A neurobiologist's guide to a healthy and productive day

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PhD tool: Map out your PhD

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Tiny practice: Boost your workday happiness with natural spaces

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Reviewing doctoral well-being research (study report)

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Facing addiction to social media in the PhD

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Addiction and the PhD (book extract)

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Happiness in the lab series

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Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindness

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Happiness in the lab, part 4: Resilience

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Happiness in the lab, part 3: Engagement

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Happiness in the lab, part 2: Purpose

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Happiness in the lab, part 1: What is happiness?

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Chronobiology addendum: A neurobiologist's guide to a healthy and productive day

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Journaling for the doctorate (II): How to journal effectively

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Journaling for the doctorate (I): Types and benefits

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On Sleep

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Take your holidays… the right way

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Tiny idea: Subtraction

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Defusing task conflict in the PhD

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Choosing not to drop out: a view from self-determination theory

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Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindness

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On Sleep

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Writing exercise: sitting with uncertainty

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Making important decisions about the doctorate (II)

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Happiness in the lab, part 3: Engagement

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Happiness in the lab, part 2: Purpose

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A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

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Journaling for the doctorate (II): How to journal effectively

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Journaling for the doctorate (I): Types and benefits

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Am I normal? An intro to mental health in the doctorate

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Advising for progress: tips for PhD supervisors

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Cultivating the progress loop in your PhD

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Happiness in the lab series

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Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindness

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Forget New Year's resolutions -- Do a Yearly Review instead

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Big PhD questions: Should I do a PhD?

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Journaling for the doctorate (II): How to journal effectively

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Productivity tip: How I do weekly reviews

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Take your holidays… the right way

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A hiatus... and more BIG PhD questions

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Big PhD questions: Should I do a PhD?

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Making important decisions about the doctorate (II)

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Making important decisions about the doctorate (I)

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Tiny idea: Use the Regret Test for daily decision-making

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The Create/Consume Hypothesis: A simple rule for more effective and valuable PhD work

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A Monday Mantra to face uncomfortable emotions (#2 productivity challenge sneak peek)

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Micro-breaks and two Monday Mantras to supercharge them

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A Monday Mantra duo: The best advice about research that an artist never gave me

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A Monday Mantra for times of coronavirus

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Monday Mantra #4: On attention

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Monday mantra #3: When you have too many open fronts

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Monday Mantra: On scientific communication and research in general

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A small hiatus, and a Monday Mantra

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PhD tool: Map out your PhD

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A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (II): The science of breaks

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Intervision: Unblocking yourself... with a little help from some friends

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More effective group decision-making meetings

Tag: mental-health

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Reviewing doctoral well-being research (study report)

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Avoiding avoidance and other mental self-sabotage in the PhD

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A Monday Mantra to face uncomfortable emotions (#2 productivity challenge sneak peek)

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Am I normal? An intro to mental health in the doctorate

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Latest News from A Happy PhD

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One year of 'A Happy PhD': What happened in 2019

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A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

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PhD tool: Map out your PhD

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Advising for progress: tips for PhD supervisors

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Cultivating the progress loop in your PhD

Tag: mindfulness

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Facing addiction to social media in the PhD

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Addiction and the PhD (book extract)

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Quickie: How to be more mindful

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Happiness in the lab, part 4: Resilience

Tag: mindset

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Tiny idea: To-do lists are menus

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (II): The science of breaks

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Tiny practice: Boost your workday happiness with natural spaces

Tag: negative-thoughts

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Avoiding avoidance and other mental self-sabotage in the PhD

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A Monday Mantra to face uncomfortable emotions (#2 productivity challenge sneak peek)

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Am I normal? An intro to mental health in the doctorate

Tag: networking

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Tips for attending scientific conferences

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Latest News from A Happy PhD

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Tag: okrs

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Advising for progress: tips for PhD supervisors

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Cultivating the progress loop in your PhD

Tag: outbreak

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A Monday Mantra for times of coronavirus

Tag: papers

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Getting into the weeds of writing

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Writing exercise: sitting with uncertainty

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Navigating authorship: a condensed crash course in setting authors for your paper

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How I revise my journal papers

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Writing research papers series

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My Ten Commandments of scientific writing

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How I write papers (Part 2)

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How I write papers

Tag: pattern

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Intervision: Unblocking yourself... with a little help from some friends

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Swath and Dive: A pattern for PhD defense presentations

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Quickie: A simple trick to get better answers to your open questions

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Supervisor Quickie: the Post-It Feedback Method

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More effective group decision-making meetings

Tag: performance

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ChatGPT's doctoral productivity advice... and four ideas the algorithm will (probably) not give you

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Tiny idea: Use the Regret Test for daily decision-making

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Breathing through the PhD: Breathwork in the doctorate

Posts

Quickie: Preloading productive meditation (book extract)

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The four disciplines of executing your PhD (book extract)

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Four scheduling strategies of successful PhD students (book extract)

Posts

Chronobiology addendum: A neurobiologist's guide to a healthy and productive day

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (II): The science of breaks

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Defusing task conflict in the PhD

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Micro-breaks and two Monday Mantras to supercharge them

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (I): Circadian rhythms

Tag: personal

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The second reason why I write this blog

Tag: pitch

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PhD tool: Pitching your research with the NABC model

Tag: planning

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Four scheduling strategies of successful PhD students (book extract)

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Defusing task conflict in the PhD

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Report from the trenches: of calendar tricks and time scarcity

Tag: poetry

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How to be a PhD student

Tag: positive-emotions

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Happiness in the lab, part 3: Engagement

Tag: positive-psychology

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Happiness in the lab series

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Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindness

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Happiness in the lab, part 4: Resilience

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Happiness in the lab, part 3: Engagement

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Happiness in the lab, part 2: Purpose

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Happiness in the lab, part 1: What is happiness?

Tag: practice

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Tiny idea: To-do lists are menus

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Tiny practice: Boost your workday happiness with natural spaces

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Tiny practice: Granny's rule

Tag: presenting

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Swath and Dive: A pattern for PhD defense presentations

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Monday Mantra: On scientific communication and research in general

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Tips for attending scientific conferences

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PhD tool: Pitching your research with the NABC model

Tag: principles

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How I revise my journal papers

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My Ten Commandments of scientific writing

Tag: priorities

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Defusing task conflict in the PhD

Tag: process

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How I revise my journal papers

Tag: procrastination

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Tiny practice: Beating procrastination with The Right Now List

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Tiny practice: Granny's rule

Tag: productivity

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Is Doctoral Productivity Bad?

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Tiny idea: To-do lists are menus

Posts

Tiny practice: Beating procrastination with The Right Now List

Posts

ChatGPT's doctoral productivity advice... and four ideas the algorithm will (probably) not give you

Posts

Tiny idea: Use the Regret Test for daily decision-making

Posts

Breathing through the PhD: Breathwork in the doctorate

Posts

Tiny idea: Subtraction

Posts

Tiny practice: Granny's rule

Posts

A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

Posts

Intervision: Unblocking yourself... with a little help from some friends

Posts

Quickie: Preloading productive meditation (book extract)

Posts

The four disciplines of executing your PhD (book extract)

Posts

Four scheduling strategies of successful PhD students (book extract)

Posts

The Create/Consume Hypothesis: A simple rule for more effective and valuable PhD work

Posts

Facing addiction to social media in the PhD

Posts

Forget New Year's resolutions -- Do a Yearly Review instead

Posts

Chronobiology addendum: A neurobiologist's guide to a healthy and productive day

Posts

Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (II): The science of breaks

Posts

A Monday Mantra to face uncomfortable emotions (#2 productivity challenge sneak peek)

Posts

Defusing task conflict in the PhD

Posts

The three most common productivity challenges of PhD students

Posts

Micro-breaks and two Monday Mantras to supercharge them

Posts

Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (I): Circadian rhythms

Posts

More effective group decision-making meetings

Posts

Take your holidays… the right way

Posts

A Monday Mantra for times of coronavirus

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On Sleep

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Advising for progress: tips for PhD supervisors

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Cultivating the progress loop in your PhD

Posts

Monday Mantra #4: On attention

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Report from the trenches: of calendar tricks and time scarcity

Posts

Productivity tip: How I do weekly reviews

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Monday mantra #3: When you have too many open fronts

Posts

A small hiatus, and a Monday Mantra

Posts

How to deal with to-do list overwhelm

Posts

Productivity tip: the Pomodoro technique

Tag: profile

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Supporting different types of students to complete their PhD (Study report)

Posts

What kind of doctoral student are you? Motivational profiles and completing the PhD (Study report)

Tag: progress

Posts

ChatGPT's doctoral productivity advice... and four ideas the algorithm will (probably) not give you

Posts

A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

Posts

Intervision: Unblocking yourself... with a little help from some friends

Posts

Supporting different types of students to complete their PhD (Study report)

Posts

What kind of doctoral student are you? Motivational profiles and completing the PhD (Study report)

Posts

PhD tool: Map out your PhD

Posts

Advising for progress: tips for PhD supervisors

Posts

Cultivating the progress loop in your PhD

Tag: psychopathology

Posts

Avoiding avoidance and other mental self-sabotage in the PhD

Posts

Am I normal? An intro to mental health in the doctorate

Tag: purpose

Posts

Forget New Year's resolutions -- Do a Yearly Review instead

Posts

Micro-breaks and two Monday Mantras to supercharge them

Posts

Happiness in the lab series

Posts

Happiness in the lab, part 2: Purpose

Tag: question

Posts

A hiatus... and more BIG PhD questions

Posts

Big PhD questions: Should I do a PhD?

Tag: questions

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Quickie: A simple trick to get better answers to your open questions

Tag: quickie

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Quickie: A simple trick to get better answers to your open questions

Posts

Supervisor Quickie: the Post-It Feedback Method

Posts

Quickie: How to be more mindful

Tag: reflection

Posts

Forget New Year's resolutions -- Do a Yearly Review instead

Posts

Journaling for the doctorate (II): How to journal effectively

Posts

Journaling for the doctorate (I): Types and benefits

Posts

Quickie: A simple trick to get better answers to your open questions

Posts

Productivity tip: How I do weekly reviews

Tag: regret

Posts

Tiny idea: Use the Regret Test for daily decision-making

Tag: relatedness

Posts

Supporting different types of students to complete their PhD (Study report)

Posts

What kind of doctoral student are you? Motivational profiles and completing the PhD (Study report)

Tag: research

Posts

Intervision: Unblocking yourself... with a little help from some friends

Posts

Swath and Dive: A pattern for PhD defense presentations

Posts

Getting into the weeds of writing

Posts

A hiatus... and more BIG PhD questions

Posts

Big PhD questions: Should I do a PhD?

Posts

Quickie: A simple trick to get better answers to your open questions

Posts

A Doctoral Consortium format for times of COVID

Posts

Writing exercise: sitting with uncertainty

Posts

Supervisor Quickie: the Post-It Feedback Method

Posts

More effective group decision-making meetings

Posts

Making important decisions about the doctorate (II)

Posts

Making important decisions about the doctorate (I)

Posts

A Monday Mantra duo: The best advice about research that an artist never gave me

Posts

Navigating authorship: a condensed crash course in setting authors for your paper

Posts

How I revise my journal papers

Posts

Writing research papers series

Posts

Tips for attending scientific conferences

Posts

PhD tool: Pitching your research with the NABC model

Posts

On cultivating (and reining) curiosity

Posts

My Ten Commandments of scientific writing

Posts

How I write papers (Part 2)

Posts

How I write papers

Posts

Baking papers, or why scientific writing is so difficult

Posts

PhD tool: The CQOCE diagram

Tag: resilience

Posts

Am I normal? An intro to mental health in the doctorate

Posts

Happiness in the lab series

Posts

Happiness in the lab, part 4: Resilience

Tag: respect

Posts

Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindness

Tag: rest

Posts

Breathing through the PhD: Breathwork in the doctorate

Posts

Take your holidays… the right way

Tag: retrospective

Posts

Forget New Year's resolutions -- Do a Yearly Review instead

Tag: review

Posts

Forget New Year's resolutions -- Do a Yearly Review instead

Posts

Journaling for the doctorate (II): How to journal effectively

Posts

How I revise my journal papers

Posts

Report from the trenches: of calendar tricks and time scarcity

Posts

Productivity tip: How I do weekly reviews

Posts

Writing research papers series

Tag: revision

Posts

How I revise my journal papers

Posts

Writing research papers series

Tag: rules

Posts

The Create/Consume Hypothesis: A simple rule for more effective and valuable PhD work

Tag: scarcity

Posts

Report from the trenches: of calendar tricks and time scarcity

Tag: schedule

Posts

Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (I): Circadian rhythms

Tag: self-determination

Posts

Supporting different types of students to complete their PhD (Study report)

Posts

What kind of doctoral student are you? Motivational profiles and completing the PhD (Study report)

Posts

Choosing not to drop out: a view from self-determination theory

Tag: self-doubt

Posts

Writing exercise: sitting with uncertainty

Tag: self-talk

Posts

Avoiding avoidance and other mental self-sabotage in the PhD

Posts

A Monday Mantra to face uncomfortable emotions (#2 productivity challenge sneak peek)

Posts

Am I normal? An intro to mental health in the doctorate

Posts

Happiness in the lab, part 4: Resilience

Tag: self-tracking

Posts

A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

Posts

The four disciplines of executing your PhD (book extract)

Posts

The Create/Consume Hypothesis: A simple rule for more effective and valuable PhD work

Posts

On Sleep

Posts

Advising for progress: tips for PhD supervisors

Posts

Cultivating the progress loop in your PhD

Posts

Happiness in the lab, part 3: Engagement

Tag: series

Posts

Happiness in the lab series

Posts

Writing research papers series

Tag: sleep

Posts

On Sleep

Tag: social-media

Posts

The Create/Consume Hypothesis: A simple rule for more effective and valuable PhD work

Posts

Facing addiction to social media in the PhD

Tag: stress

Posts

Breathing through the PhD: Breathwork in the doctorate

Posts

Avoiding avoidance and other mental self-sabotage in the PhD

Tag: suicide

Posts

Quickie: How many PhD students are anxious or depressed (or will drop out) worldwide?

Tag: summer

Posts

Take your holidays… the right way

Tag: supervision

Posts

A Doctoral Consortium format for times of COVID

Posts

Supporting different types of students to complete their PhD (Study report)

Posts

Supervisor Quickie: the Post-It Feedback Method

Posts

Advising for progress: tips for PhD supervisors

Tag: task

Posts

Defusing task conflict in the PhD

Tag: thesis

Posts

A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

Posts

Swath and Dive: A pattern for PhD defense presentations

Posts

A Doctoral Consortium format for times of COVID

Posts

PhD tool: Map out your PhD

Posts

PhD tool: The CQOCE diagram

Tag: time-management

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ChatGPT's doctoral productivity advice... and four ideas the algorithm will (probably) not give you

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A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

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Quickie: Preloading productive meditation (book extract)

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The four disciplines of executing your PhD (book extract)

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Four scheduling strategies of successful PhD students (book extract)

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Defusing task conflict in the PhD

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The three most common productivity challenges of PhD students

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Monday Mantra #4: On attention

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Monday mantra #3: When you have too many open fronts

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Productivity tip: the Pomodoro technique

Tag: timeblocking

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Defusing task conflict in the PhD

Tag: timeboxing

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A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

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Productivity tip: the Pomodoro technique

Tag: tiny

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Tiny idea: To-do lists are menus

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Tiny practice: Beating procrastination with The Right Now List

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Tiny idea: Use the Regret Test for daily decision-making

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Tiny practice: Boost your workday happiness with natural spaces

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Tiny idea: Subtraction

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Tiny practice: Granny's rule

Tag: to-do

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Tiny idea: To-do lists are menus

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Tiny practice: Beating procrastination with The Right Now List

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How to deal with to-do list overwhelm

Tag: toolbox

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Quickie: A simple trick to get better answers to your open questions

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PhD tool: Map out your PhD

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Navigating authorship: a condensed crash course in setting authors for your paper

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PhD tool: Pitching your research with the NABC model

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PhD tool: The CQOCE diagram

Tag: toolkit

The Happy PhD Toolkit

Tag: training

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A Doctoral Consortium format for times of COVID

Tag: uncertainty

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Writing exercise: sitting with uncertainty

Tag: uncomfortable-emotions

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A Monday Mantra to face uncomfortable emotions (#2 productivity challenge sneak peek)

Tag: vacations

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Take your holidays… the right way

Tag: values

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Is Doctoral Productivity Bad?

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Forget New Year's resolutions -- Do a Yearly Review instead

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Big PhD questions: Should I do a PhD?

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Making important decisions about the doctorate (II)

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Making important decisions about the doctorate (I)

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How to be a PhD student

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Happiness in the lab, part 2: Purpose

Tag: walking

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (II): The science of breaks

Tag: wellbeing

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Breathing through the PhD: Breathwork in the doctorate

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Tiny practice: Boost your workday happiness with natural spaces

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Reviewing doctoral well-being research (study report)

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Avoiding avoidance and other mental self-sabotage in the PhD

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Facing addiction to social media in the PhD

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Addiction and the PhD (book extract)

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Quickie: How many PhD students are anxious or depressed (or will drop out) worldwide?

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Chronobiology addendum: A neurobiologist's guide to a healthy and productive day

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Journaling for the doctorate (II): How to journal effectively

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Journaling for the doctorate (I): Types and benefits

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A Monday Mantra to face uncomfortable emotions (#2 productivity challenge sneak peek)

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Take your holidays… the right way

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Am I normal? An intro to mental health in the doctorate

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On Sleep

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Cultivating the progress loop in your PhD

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Happiness in the lab series

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Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindness

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Happiness in the lab, part 4: Resilience

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Happiness in the lab, part 3: Engagement

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Happiness in the lab, part 2: Purpose

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Happiness in the lab, part 1: What is happiness?

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On cultivating (and reining) curiosity

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Choosing not to drop out: a view from self-determination theory

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Who drops out of the Ph.D.?

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Risk factors for depression and anxiety in doing a Ph.D.

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The second reason why I write this blog

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Is doing a Ph.D. bad... for your mental wellbeing?

Tag: worry

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A Monday Mantra for times of coronavirus

Tag: writing

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Getting into the weeds of writing

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Journaling for the doctorate (II): How to journal effectively

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Journaling for the doctorate (I): Types and benefits

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Writing exercise: sitting with uncertainty

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Supervisor Quickie: the Post-It Feedback Method

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Navigating authorship: a condensed crash course in setting authors for your paper

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How I revise my journal papers

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Writing research papers series

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Monday Mantra: On scientific communication and research in general

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My Ten Commandments of scientific writing

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How I write papers (Part 2)

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How I write papers

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Baking papers, or why scientific writing is so difficult