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2026

A Mantra for Daily Reviewsoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2026

2025

Learning for the PhD in the age of GenAIoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2025
A PhD So Good It Can't Be Ignored (II) -- Mission, a System, and a Case Study (book extract)original ↗
25 Jul 2025
A PhD So Good It Can't Be Ignored -- Passion, Practice, and Control (book extract)original ↗
20 Jun 2025
Monday Mantra: Nothing meaningful without discomfortoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2025
Impostors and supervisors - Personal and contextual factors in a happy PhD (study brief)original ↗
15 Mar 2025
How to restart our PhD habit after a productivity slumporiginal ↗
23 Jan 2025

2024

Tiny Practice and AI Tip -- Create Your Topical 'A Happy PhD AI Companion'original ↗
31 Dec 2024
Tiny idea: Feedback options, not checkpointsoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2024
Two Hundred Weeks: Productivity for Mortal PhD Students (book extract)original ↗
30 Apr 2024
Productivity as Avoidance, or How *Not* to Think about Doctoral Productivity (book extract)original ↗
12 Apr 2024
Is Doctoral Productivity Bad?original ↗
12 Mar 2024
Tiny idea: To-do lists are menusoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2024
Tiny practice: Beating procrastination with The Right Now Listoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2024

2023

ChatGPT's doctoral productivity advice... and four ideas the algorithm will (probably) not give youoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2023
Tiny idea: Use the Regret Test for daily decision-makingoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2023
Breathing through the PhD: Breathwork in the doctorateoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2023
Tiny practice: Boost your workday happiness with natural spacesoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2023
Tiny idea: Subtractionoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2023
Tiny practice: Granny's ruleoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2023
A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhDoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2023

2022

Intervision: Unblocking yourself... with a little help from some friendsoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2022
Swath and Dive: A pattern for PhD defense presentationsoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2022
Reviewing doctoral well-being research (study report)original ↗
7 Oct 2022
Quickie: Preloading productive meditation (book extract)original ↗
15 Sept 2022
The four disciplines of executing your PhD (book extract)original ↗
31 Aug 2022
Four scheduling strategies of successful PhD students (book extract)original ↗
27 Jul 2022
Getting into the weeds of writingoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2022
Avoiding avoidance and other mental self-sabotage in the PhDoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2022
The Create/Consume Hypothesis: A simple rule for more effective and valuable PhD workoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2022
Facing addiction to social media in the PhDoriginal ↗
23 May 2022
https://ahappyphd.org/newsletter/original ↗
17 May 2022
The Happy PhD Toolkitoriginal ↗
17 May 2022
Addiction and the PhD (book extract)original ↗
9 Apr 2022
Forget New Year's resolutions -- Do a Yearly Review insteadoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2022
A hiatus... and more BIG PhD questionsoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2022

2021

Big PhD questions: Should I do a PhD?original ↗
28 Oct 2021
Quickie: How many PhD students are anxious or depressed (or will drop out) worldwide?original ↗
24 Sept 2021
Chronobiology addendum: A neurobiologist's guide to a healthy and productive dayoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2021
Journaling for the doctorate (II): How to journal effectivelyoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2021
Journaling for the doctorate (I): Types and benefitsoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2021
Quickie: A simple trick to get better answers to your open questionsoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2021
A Doctoral Consortium format for times of COVIDoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2021
Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (II): The science of breaksoriginal ↗
7 May 2021
Supporting different types of students to complete their PhD (Study report)original ↗
8 Apr 2021
What kind of doctoral student are you? Motivational profiles and completing the PhD (Study report)original ↗
24 Mar 2021
A Monday Mantra to face uncomfortable emotions (#2 productivity challenge sneak peek)original ↗
11 Mar 2021
Defusing task conflict in the PhDoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2021
The three most common productivity challenges of PhD studentsoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2021
PhD tool: Map out your PhDoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2021

2020

Micro-breaks and two Monday Mantras to supercharge themoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2020
Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (I): Circadian rhythmsoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2020
Writing exercise: sitting with uncertaintyoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2020
Supervisor Quickie: the Post-It Feedback Methodoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2020
Latest News from A Happy PhDoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2020
More effective group decision-making meetingsoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2020
Making important decisions about the doctorate (II)original ↗
20 Sept 2020
Making important decisions about the doctorate (I)original ↗
12 Sept 2020
Take your holidays… the right wayoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2020
A Monday Mantra duo: The best advice about research that an artist never gave meoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2020
Navigating authorship: a condensed crash course in setting authors for your paperoriginal ↗
17 May 2020
Am I normal? An intro to mental health in the doctorateoriginal ↗
8 May 2020
How to be a PhD studentoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2020
Quickie: How to be more mindfuloriginal ↗
30 Mar 2020
A Monday Mantra for times of coronavirusoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2020
How I revise my journal papersoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2020
On Sleeporiginal ↗
23 Feb 2020
Advising for progress: tips for PhD supervisorsoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2020
Cultivating the progress loop in your PhDoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2020
One year of 'A Happy PhD': What happened in 2019original ↗
10 Jan 2020

2019

Monday Mantra #4: On attentionoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2019
Report from the trenches: of calendar tricks and time scarcityoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2019
Productivity tip: How I do weekly reviewsoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2019
Monday mantra #3: When you have too many open frontsoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2019
Happiness in the lab seriesoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2019
Writing research papers seriesoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2019
Happiness in the lab, part 5: Kindnessoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2019
Happiness in the lab, part 4: Resilienceoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2019
Happiness in the lab, part 3: Engagementoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2019
Happiness in the lab, part 2: Purposeoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2019
Happiness in the lab, part 1: What is happiness?original ↗
25 Aug 2019
Monday Mantra: On scientific communication and research in generaloriginal ↗
30 Jun 2019
Tips for attending scientific conferencesoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2019
A small hiatus, and a Monday Mantraoriginal ↗
26 May 2019
PhD tool: Pitching your research with the NABC modeloriginal ↗
20 May 2019
On cultivating (and reining) curiosityoriginal ↗
12 May 2019
How to deal with to-do list overwhelmoriginal ↗
5 May 2019
Ask A Happy Ph.D. - Student editionoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2019
Choosing not to drop out: a view from self-determination theoryoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2019
Who drops out of the Ph.D.?original ↗
13 Apr 2019
My Ten Commandments of scientific writingoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2019
How I write papers (Part 2)original ↗
29 Mar 2019
How I write papersoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2019
Baking papers, or why scientific writing is so difficultoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2019
Risk factors for depression and anxiety in doing a Ph.D.original ↗
8 Mar 2019
The second reason why I write this blogoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2019
Productivity tip: the Pomodoro techniqueoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2019
PhD tool: The CQOCE diagramoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2019
Contactoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2019
Is doing a Ph.D. bad... for your mental wellbeing?original ↗
3 Jan 2019
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