I´m attending a six-week course on how to write in Academia. The course is for postdocs that are non-native English speaker and it´s taught by a very funny guy, Dr. Kristopher Geda. The course is… Read More »Professional and Academic Writing
I was curious about what makes a great blog, and I learned that good blogs with ardent followers have a niche. And so I thought “What is my niche?”. Is it being a postdoc? Being… Read More »What is my niche?
Another week, another learning opportunity! I have the possibility of obtaining a Teaching certificate through the Postdoctoral Office at Stanford. To obtain the certificate I need to attend a journal club, teach at least 20… Read More »Teaching workshop
I attended another postdoc workshop last Friday. It was called Creativity in Research and we learned to use our creativity to get unstuck, create collaborative projects, and design our research projects. The workshop started out… Read More »Creativity in Research
The new year has started and Stanford has been open for a week. During this week I´ve already managed to sign up for a course and various seminars. And set my learning goals on LinkedIn… Read More »LinkedIn Learning for Stanford and SLAC employees
My family has been in the US for almost two months, and what have we learned so far? Everything is expensive Very early on, we learned how expensive things are in the Bay Area. Housing… Read More »Two months in the USA
After flying from Stockholm-Arlanda Airport early on Thursday morning via Munich we finally landed in San Fransisco International airport late at night, Pacific time. There, we had to queue for more than an hour to… Read More »Arriving at Stanford
Last winter I thought about doing my postdoc at Stanford University in California, USA. I applied to the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for a two-year grant with the possibility of another two years back… Read More »Wallenberg Postdoc grant for research at Stanford University
I ended my trial subscription on Pluralsight and decided not to renew it. I have to say that I was disappointed when the trial ended and this was the biggest reason for not going ahead… Read More »My Pluralsight experience
Now that my development environment is set up I’ve started following the videos on Pluralsight. However, I don’t know if it’s my particular installation or if the videos haven’t been updated, but I got a… Read More »Getting started with JavaScripting
I want to properly learn JavaScript to improve my front-end developer skills. I’ve been using HTML and CSS for over a decade with my themes and my websites, but I feel like JavaScript is the… Read More »Learning JavaScript
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My hubby bought me a new phone a couple of months ago while he was vacationing in Malaysia. It’s a Samsung Galaxy Note Fan Edition (FE), which is basically a refurbished Samsung Galaxy Note 7. You remember the ones that used to be potentially explosive? Read More »Samsung Galaxy Note Fan Edition
After a couple of days resting at the hotel, we were told to stand-by for busses that would take us to Mina on the 8th of Dhulhijjah. No-one knew in advance exactly when the busses… Read More »My hajj – Mina, Arafat & Jamarat
Although I was looking forward to the trip and determined to go through with it, I knew I would miss my children, and I worried that my youngest one, who was only 9 months old,… Read More »My Umrah before the Hajj
Going for Hajj is a big thing, one of the biggest adventures in your life. For me, thinking back to where and when it began, it’s getting difficult to remember. Although the process started almost a year ago (when we first started talking about making the trip), it finished just over a week ago. In total one year from start to finish!
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