Fun things I found in old research notesI like to periodically clean/organize my Dropbox folders and documents (it’s a never-ending job). Here’s a fun sampling of what I found in the latest
How to set up and run a virtual machine on Amazon Web ServicesI got tired of constantly overloading my computer to the point where I couldn’t even use Word. And while I have access to a few
Are adults actually worse at learning languages?This might seem like a strange topic for a blog post by an economist, but it relates to the “correlation is not causation” theme that
On early-career mentorshipToday, I bring you some unsolicited practical advice on mentorship for junior professors. I was originally going to post this as a Twitter thread, but
A post-mortem analysis of abandoned research projects, part 1We’re often told that for every published paper there are many other projects that never saw the light of day, and I’ve always thought that
Academic Sequitur for graduate studentsIf you’re a graduate student who signed up for Academic Sequitur(or thinking about signing up), but aren’t quite sure who or what to follow, here
My solution for how to stay up-to-date on researchAcademic Sequituris finally here! For those of you thinking “What the wha is that?”, Academic Sequitur is a website I’ve been working on for about
Should the same reviewer review the same paper at a different journal?Last week, I tweeted about a toolI use when I review papers I’ve reviewed before, especially at a different journal (basically, you can upload two