Supervisor, Mentor, or Manager?

There are many academia-specific keywords: “grant”, “stipend”, “precarity”. But what is the correct designation for the leader of a research group who writes projects, manages people, supervises students, etc? Manager? Supervisor? Mentor? Because

The nightmare of saying ‘I don’t know’ out loud.

If you ever wondered what the academic equivalent of “the common child’s nightmare of going to school while in your pyjamas” is, chances are most researchers under 40 years old will respond

People; the problem in Open Science?

If only we fixed the publishing system. If only we fixed the incentives, rewards and recognition. Open Science (OS) likes to position itself as a systems problem. And whilst these things do matter,

Suffer-culture in academia

“I spent the holidays in the lab.” “I started at 5.00 this morning.” Have you ever had that person in your team that made sure to explicitly share that they have been