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A tightly packed wooden bowl of mixed chopped veg and meat is on a wooden tray with a little wooden spoon ready to eat, fuel and nourish the consumer.

Are you dropping the “eating well” ball?

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Jo VanEvery 9 Comments

When you are busy and tired making decisions about what to eat and preparing healthy meals is more difficult. This is particularly difficult if you eat your main meal in the evening. The Covid pandemic just makes it worse. Principles for solving this problem and ideas to try.

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Are meetings really a waste of time?

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

This post was originally written during a time when many universities and workplaces had shifted to remote work in response to the COVID pandemic. Although circumstances have now changed for many people, much of what I say in this post still applies. Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Are meetings really a waste of time? […]

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Confidence Tricks

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Jo VanEvery

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Confidence Tricks Everyone struggles with confidence at least some of the time. While confidence can’t be overly reliant on external validation, negative feedback is always difficult, and it’s tough to maintain your confidence when external validation is slow in coming. Confidence also depends on things you don’t have complete […]

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Expectations

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

As an academic you are expected to do a lot of things, expectations that appear increasingly unreasonable. You may need to do more work than you think is reasonable but you do not need to collude in the erasure of the political agency of others. What happens if you stop using the passive voice when talking about those expectations?

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