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Poking a barking dog with a big stick.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
For the math nerd in you.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Misguided.
Friday, October 28, 2011
On-line therapy
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Moving towards generosity.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
The Longest Revision process ever?
Friday, October 14, 2011
Update - Part II On Generosity
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Okay enough of the bitching and complaining. More importantly...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Update - When a supervisor shoots themself in the foot.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
A rant.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Donor's Choose!
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Update on #madwriting
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Madwriting
Monday, September 26, 2011
What's the use of Dropbox?
Thursday, September 22, 2011
It's the buddhist in me.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Seriously?
Monday, September 19, 2011
Homeward Bound
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Cell division
Friday, September 9, 2011
A giant leap backward
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Yup.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Greedy vs. Curious - Which supervisory style are you?
Sunday, September 4, 2011
This is wicked.
Friday, August 26, 2011
What will happen to Canada's opposition?
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
AcademicWomensansBabies
Monday, August 22, 2011
How people in science see each other.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Dork moments brought to you by Girlpostdoc
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Another one bites the dust.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Decisions, decisions...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
So what are you going to do with that?
Friday, July 29, 2011
Probabilities
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
more travelling...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
travelling...
Friday, July 22, 2011
If you're a working-class American who still votes Republican ... you're stupid (Bill Maher)
Friday, July 15, 2011
Do academics have charisma?
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Happy long weekend.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Love this.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Not our proudest moment. But damn makes for a good laugh.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Mansplaining without the man.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Twitter sucks.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
I loved this video
Friday, June 10, 2011
The Long Silence will be a little longer
Monday, May 30, 2011
Nuclear power is a helluva way to boil water.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Hanging my head in disbelief.
Monday, May 2, 2011
#elxn41...holding my breath today.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Because IT'S FRIDAY!!!!
Friday, April 29, 2011
Because it's not quite Friday.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Staggering, but frankly not surprising.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Hinterland of Canadian science.
Friday, April 15, 2011
New Digs
Friday, April 15, 2011
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Well I did it. I wrote the crappiest piece of shiza manuscript I have in a long time. But the reason I made myself do this is I have a perfectionism problem. This was an experiment to see if I could find a way to overcome that challenge.
Now I have what I like to call the pseudocode for a manuscript. All I have to do is work on it just 1 paragraph or 1 figure a day (and/or 1hr a day) and pretty soon I'll have a manuscript worth sending to RedBull. We'll see how it goes.....
So peeps did anyone else do a #madwriting fest? Do they find it helps or hinders their writing (of any kind!)?
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I did a mad writing fest for my thesis. I think I wrote a chapter a day and finished it in 5 days. 2 days before the first deadline :P I think your method is pretty sound. It always helps to start with a rough draft that you can edit down later.
I like to put barf on page (or madwriting as some call it) and then edit and improve after. Otherwise i'm stuck at writing the perfect sentence and taking 4x as long to get it done.
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Congrats on getting the draft done! I did get a draft of my postdoc proposal #madwritten that weekend. I continued to #madwrite until a couple days ago, when I turned in the final polished product! It felt great! Now I'll be #madwriting to finish my dissertation in a few weeks!
BTW, I tried to comment on your twitter updates, but I am new to twitter. I now realize you probably did not get my replies if you're not actively following me. My name is @Mandachen
Sorry to hear about your current postdoc situation. At least you'll get some really cool papers out of it, then you can move on and won't have to deal with RedBull any more. Probably not much consolation currently, but at least you have something to look foward to.
Best!
Amanda
Brian Krueger, PhD
Duke University