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Dr Ajantha Abey - Research Habits I Wish I’d Started Earlier in My PhD

Dr Ajantha Abey narrates his blog written for Dementia Researcher.

There are already about a thousand blogs telling you to pace yourself and embrace failure. This is not one of them. Ajantha has written up the unglamorous systems he either set up early in his PhD and still thanks his past self for, or wishes he had. Experiment numbering. File names that actually tell you something. One place for every note. A reference manager with tags that earn their keep. Figures made as you go rather than in a panic at the end. Plus a spreadsheet he cheerfully describes as a colour-coded monument to…

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