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Books
Currently reading
| Title | Author | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Quiet Power | Susan Cain | 0% |
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| Title | Author | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Thinking Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 18% |
| The Telescope in the Ice | Mark Bowen | 26% |
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Fiction / Science Fiction
| Title | Author | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| The Institute | Stephen King | 4 |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | 5 |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 4 |
| And the Mountains Echoed | Khaled Hosseini | 2 |
| The Lost Symbol | Dan Brown | 4 |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | 4 |
| The Immortals of Meluha | Amish Tripathi | 3 |
| Nothing Ventured | Jeffrey Archer | 3 |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 5 |
| And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | 4 |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Agatha Christie | 4 |
| Chasing Tomorrow | Sidney Sheldon | - |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 5 |
| Five Point Someone | Chetan Bhagat | 2 |
| 2 States | Chetan Bhagat | 3 |
Pop Science
| Title | Author | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| The Theory of Everything | Stephen Hawking | 3 |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 3 |
Self-help
| Title | Author | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Who Moved My Cheese | Spencer Johnson | 5 |
| Life Is What You Make It | Peter Buffett | 4 |
| The War of Art | Steven Pressfield | 4 |
| Feynman’s Rainbow | Leonard Mlodinow | 5 |
Biographies
| Title | Author | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Richard P. Feynman | 5 |
| Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson | 4 |
| Wings of Fire | A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | 3 |
| Yanni in Words | Yanni | 3 |
Didn’t finish
| Title | Author | Enjoyed? |
|---|---|---|
| About Science | — | — |
| The First Three Minutes | Steven Weinberg | Somewhat |
| Biographies | — | — |
| The Shooting Star | Shivya Nath | Nay |
| Shoe Dog | Phil Knight | Somewhat |
| Self help | — | — |
| The 4-Hour Workweek | Tim Ferriss | Nay |
| Creativity, Inc. | Ed Catmull | Yea |
| Fiction | — | — |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | Yea |
| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | Douglas Adams | Nay |
| The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells | Nay |
Rating guide
| Stars | Means |
|---|---|
| 5 | Loved it |
| 4 | Enjoyed it |
| 3 | Liked it |
| 2 | So-so |
| 1 | Unreadable |
Websites
- ScienceMag.org/Careers/Articles
- Nature.com/Careers
- astro-ph.CO - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- astro-ph.HE - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- astro-ph.IM - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Pinned posts
- How the arts can help you to craft a successful research career - Science
- Why you should consider becoming a doctoral representative - Nature
- Overworking tanked my health—until I began to prioritize work-life balance - Science
- Hesitant about virtual networking? Adjust your approach to harness the benefits - Science
- Learn when–and how–to say no in your professional life - Science
- As a grad student struggling with mental health, I learned to ask for help - Science
- The postdoc career journeys that date back to kindergarten - Nature
- Julie Gould explores professional identity and motivation by asking five researchers how they keep a childhood love of science alive, despite the setbacks.
- To get the most out of your workday, consider your ‘inner clock’ - Science
- How I started a journal for postdoctoral researchers - Nature
- How to write a superb literature review - Nature
- Uncertain prospects for postdoctoral researchers - Nature
- How I run a lab and work as a PhD student simultaneously - Nature
- Why seek a single mentor when you can have three — or more - Nature
- Don’t erase undergrad researchers and technicians from author lists - Science
- Do you dread giving talks? Turn fear into joy with these four keys - Science
- The Power of Procrastination - PHD Comics
- Why does a high-impact publication matter so much for a career in research? – Nature
- Should academic science reconsider the definition of success, asks Yvonne Couch.
- Einstein, Eddington and the 1919 eclipse - Nature
- What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership- HBS Working Knowledge
- The brews and bakes that forged career paths outside academia - Nature
- Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity - Working Knowledge, HBS
- Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises - Working Knowledge, HBS
- Snooze And Lose Or Win: How To Successfully Pivot Your Business During Challenging Times - Forbes
- Why Successful Entrepreneurs Need To Be Calculated Risk Takers - Forbes
- Why You Should Not Sell Your Startup App Idea - Forbes
- A Simple Way To Reduce Unintended Consequences When Solving Big Problems - Forbes
- How To Empower Your Team: It’s All About Leaning In, Not Stepping Away - Forbes
- How to be an ethical scientist - Science
- Migrating big astronomy data to the cloud - Nature
- Overcoming my writing guilt: writing in lockdown - Nature
Ursula came back — after, for me, a few weeks of dread — with her comments about my draft which, surprisingly, were generally positive. The only downfalls were that it had too few images and that there was too much focus on certain sections. If I’d known that, having put in a fraction of the effort required, I would receive such feedback, I could have knocked it out of the park all along.
- This also happens to me a lot.
- How I ran a virtual research retreat during a pandemic - Nature
- A nice way of keeping in touch with your collegues and keeping them motivated.
- Writing the perfect recommendation letter - Nature
- To get through a personal crisis, I found a surprising source of comfort: work - Science
- For scientists’ working hours, what does ‘done’ mean? - Science
- Overcoming perfectionism during the pandemic - Nature
- How to banish impostor syndrome - Science
Random (interesting) things on the internet
Saved to read later
- Tools for Managing Open Source Programs - The Linux Foundation
- Creating an Open Source Program - The Linux Foundation
Saved to remember their existence
- First Timers Only
- Friendly Open Source projects should reserve specific issues for newbies.
- I had to add the site description here to remember what First Timers Only is about.