One of the hardest (and most essential) parts of doing reserach is staying up to date with the scientific literature. Don’t know for you, but in my case, papers, chapters, and books pile up faster than I can read them… and many end up forgotten in a folder named something like “to_read_pdfs” 😅.
To keep that from happening (or at least try) I’ve decided to launch a section on this blog called A paper a day keeps the PhD awake.
The idea is simple:
- Read one paper a day (or almost).
- Write a short summary, interesting idea, reflection, or critical note.
- Keep everything collected here as a personal log and future reference.
- And if it happens to help someone else along the way even better!
This isn’t meant to be a series of formal reviews or exhaustive analyses. Sometimes it’ll be a concise summary, sometimes a methodological highlight, and other times just a single idea that I found brilliant (or questionable).
It’s also a way to try to turn reading papers into a steady habit, beyond the pressure of specific projects. Because in the end, science doesn’t move forward in isolation, and reading is a way of thinking, too.
So… welcome to this new section! 📚☕
See you between papers =)