April 2021

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A Book: How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
If you want a handbook for how to beat anxiety, conquer your anger and start establishing a more philosophical mind-set towards life, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Favourite quote: “The wise person is consistent in both thoughts and actions”

An Article: Stepping off the Hamster Wheel
In a time when mental health and wellbeing is at the forefront of peoples mind discusses the state of these topics in academia.
Personal impact: I’ve been questioning if I want to stay in academia after my PhD, and so I’ve been reading a lot of articles like this to try and weigh up my options.

A Journal Publication: We read spam a lot: study of unsolicited and unwanted academic invitations
Dealing with spam email is an almost daily occurrence for scientists: predatory journals, marketing emails, fake conferences – you name it, there’s an email about it. But being the nerds they are, a group of scientists actually sat down to figure out how much we actually get. The answer: a lot.
Most interesting fact: On average they found that scientists received 312 spam emails a month. Sometimes it feels like that’s how much I get in just one week.

Until next month and with kindness,

Steve

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