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Nicole Janz is a trained journalist and lecturer at the University of Nottingham. As an academic, she writes about human rights. On the side, she writes about habit formation, productivity, and writing in communities. Nicole writes fiction and works on several short stories and poems; she has started her first novel and a non-fiction book. She has published on the LSE Impact Blog, The Monkey Cage, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Brave Writer and The Writers Cooperative on Medium (https://medium.com/@janz-is-writing). Follow her on Twitter @polscireplicate and @camwritinghub.
"Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome." - Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic When Elizabeth Gilbert, the bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, started her career, she suffered from crippling fear.
DrRaul Pacheco-Vega is a professor, mentor, and outspoken writer who does not mind sharing when he's blocked. "I also get stuck. I want to write, but my brain doesn't want to push words out through my fingers," he writes on his blog. "When I set myself a hard target (e.g.
During the early weeks of Covid-19 lockdown, I stopped writing. I was squashed on my table that was too narrow to lay out my notes, in a home office that was too small to think big. The minutes ticked by. I found myself staring at the blank page, paralysed for lack of words.
"Your identity comes from your goals. Being totally bought-in and clear about the end you have in mind instills a deep sense of purpose. You can imagine your future self in the position you want to be." - Dr Benjamin Hardy When graduate student Ben Hardy decided to become a writer, he didn't just plan ahead his next 12 months.
Writing in communities, in the form of writing groups and writing retreats, has become immensely popular in the last decade. Despite COVID-19 putting a halt on face-to-face meetings, the new online writing group boom has helped academics to stay productive.
I am a perfectionist writer. I set out each monthly, weekly and daily writing goal in advance. But I've found that most of the time I'm not keeping to these goals. My immaculate lists remain untouched - until they haunt me in the middle of the night.
Nicole Janz is a lecturer at the Social Science Research Methods Centre and a PhD candidate in Political Science at Cambridge University, Political Science Replication Blog |@PolSciReplicate. Seth Werfel is a PhD student in Political Science at Stanford University. Stephanie Wykstra (@Swykstr) is an independent researcher, and the recipient of a Sloan Foundation planning grant.
A recent study sent data requests to 200 authors of economics articles where it was stated 'data available upon request'. Most of the authors refused. What does the scientific community think about those withholding their data? Are they guilty of scientific misconduct?
A veritable firestorm hit political science this past week, with revelations that a promising young star, Michael J. LaCour, a doctoral student at the University of California at Los Angeles, apparently had falsified data. The data served as the basis for a recently published paper in Science.