On Tuesday, I became a PhD candidate. If you're not familiar with the process (I certainly wasn't until well into grad school), when you...

I successfully defended my Master's thesis via Zoom a couple of weeks ago, and I've been reflecting on what worked well as I prepared and...

The title is misleading. This isn’t going to be another post about how to be productive while working from home. There are already many...

Edit: **I originally wrote this before coronavirus hit Canada in a big way, once it did I was struggling with productivity myself, and...

Thank you for your interest in this advent calendar and learning R! R is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. At first,...

"The self-made inferno of the academic junk bond era is the conferences, where the din of ambition is as deafening as on the floor of the...

Before you start reading: have you read Part One? If not, STOP, and head over to my previous post. It will be a better experience if you...

Welcome to the tropical dry forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica! You can see in the photo above (Fig. 1) where this ecosystem gets its...

Okay, not literal mountains, though I totally recommend that too - the feeling I get from summiting a mountain peak is the same wonderful...

After five months of grad school, I'm just over a quarter of the way through (assuming I can finish in two years, which is my goal) and I...

Through my research and field work, I get to visit some very cool places. I really enjoy the work and research I am involved in and I...