A paper a day keeps the PhD awake

Daily reflections, highlights, and ideas from research papers, one cup of coffee at a time.

A paper a day keeps the PhD awake

What makes a Science Video engaging on YouTube?

YouTube isn’t just for entertainment, it can be a powerful tool for science communication. A PLOS ONE study of American Chemical Society videos reveals how factors like video length, likes, and mobile viewing influence audience engagement with science on YouTube. Communicating science effectively isn’t just about the content, it’s about how it’s presented.

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A paper a day keeps the PhD awake

Understanding WATA: a practical guide to Word Association Thematic Analysis

A paper a day keeps the PhD awake: Word Association Thematic Analysis (WATA) is a mixed-methods workflow that first detects statistically distinctive words between two groups of texts, then interprets them in context to develop themes—offering scalable, human-meaningful comparisons across large corpora.

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A paper a day keeps the PhD awake

A paper a day keeps the PhD awake

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 …

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