Newsletter Explore | Embrace | Enjoy -🧠 STREAMLine 3️⃣2️⃣ It has been a busy week on the Knowledge Ecology front!
Skills - Communication When Everything is Urgent, Nothing is Urgent🧠 Brain STREAM 3️⃣1️⃣ Communicating biodiversity loss without using some aspect of 'death' in the headline.
Newsletter Hybridisation as a Tool To Manage Multiple Specialisms in Research; 🧠 Brain STREAM Issue 30 How blending specialisms and using 'hybrid vigour' creates something greater than the sum of its parts.
Newsletter Daily Field Notes: Morning Pages as Research Practice When I let my research mind wander. Here's what I thought about in five days of morning pages.
Newsletter The Ecology Behind Why Your Progress Feels Slow (And Why That's OK): 🧠 Brain STREAM 2️⃣8️⃣ If anyone is slow to grow, it's me. But I'm at peace with that, because I understand the ecological principles behind it.
Newsletter The Writing Ecosystem: Life, Death, and Rebirth in Our Creative Process [🧠 Brain STREAM 27] Rainforest and tundra are equally valuable in the writing ecosystem
Newsletter The Journal of Personal Experimentation: 🧠 Brain STREAM 2️⃣6️⃣ Just floating an idea - let me know what you think in the comments!
Newsletter Predictable Imbalance; the Nature of the Pareto Principle and How it Can Help Our Research: 🧠 Brain STREAM 2️⃣5️⃣ Is it in our nature to conform to the Pareto Principle? Nature says yes, so how can we reframe its principles to help with our research work?
Newsletter The Pareto Principle - LLMs vs Nature 🧠 Brain STREAM 2️⃣4️⃣ Can we engineer the 80/20 rule, or is it inevitable? Within my own academic-in-training context, I consider LLMs and nature to find out.
Newsletter Why the ‘Rule of Three’ is such a powerful concept 🤯: Brain STREAM 2️⃣3️⃣ There's more to the Rule of Three than you might think.
Newsletter The Lessons Learned Register: 🧠 Brain STREAM 21 Discover the unique benefits of having a 'Lessons Learned Register' for use throughout your research.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 18: When Things Get Hard We can still make progress when things get hard. What are some of the things we can do in the days and weeks like these?
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 17: Networking (😱) Mention the word networking and most of us flee or freeze in fright. In this week's newsletter I discuss three strategies I use to improve my networking ability.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 16: Make problems work for you, not against you This weeks newsletter looks in detail about problems.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 15: Blips and bits Don't stress about using every moment of time to get things done, but do use them when the rest of your time doesn't go to plan and recognise how much time they add up to.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 14: Identify Your Beavers This week beavers help to frame the idea to find the things in your life which have a disproportionately large effect relative to their effort or cost.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 13: Feeling good helps the medicine go down... This week, I highlight Ali Abdaal's new book, 'Feel Good Productivity' in order to find fun in the things we do; should you read it?
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 12: New Years Resolutions More Successful Than You Think I have always had low expectations for New Years Resolutions, but perhaps I am wrong!
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 11: Into the Wild With Writing Be inspired to write 'in the wild' with this blog post and reduce the fear of writing in public.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 10: Goals This month I consider goals. Goals are not just about the end result but about the hours of practice we put into getting there.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 9: Stories This week I want to embrace stories and how they are important to our everyday life.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 8: Reminiscence Remember what it feels like to be given the freedom to play? That's what this week's Brain STREAM newsletter is about.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 7: Dictionaries I never thought I could have so much fun discussing the use of the humble dictionary. This week I talk about word use in the sciences and how a physical dictionary can add some flower to our word power.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 6: Deadlines They are what everyone dreads, but deadlines are a part of life. Are there ways we can see them differently? This week I reflect on what missing two deadlines means to me.
Newsletter 🧠 Brain STREAM 5: Change This week I discuss "Change". Things are changing as I develop a new website and take actions to try and STREAMline my workload.
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