Personal academic websites for the impatient

If you are used to working with github, and using markdown, it really does just take half an hour to throw a website together. Obviously writing the content will take a little longer, but once you’re over the first hurdle you can add things incrementally. For me the big hurdle was just figuring out how to get anything up...

Finding a PhD outside the UK

This post outlines how PhD study works in countries other than the UK.

Although there is a lot of information out there about PhDs in general, it is often written with the aim of being relevant to any subject (physics, medieval literature, sociology…). This often results in a misleading picture of what a physics PhD looks like, so in this...