Blog posts

2026

This is how I design my academic posters

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When I was younger, I’d often accompany my mom to pottery markets. My mom’s pottery is amazing, useful, and aesthetically pleasing - just look for yourself! Still, being at a market sometimes also meant long periods of waiting, and hoping some customers would approach our stand. That’s the experience that comes to my mind every time I’m at a poster session at a conference.

Help! My Zoom transcript is full of junk!

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Transcribing interviews has always been the worst part about doing qualitative research. So, of course, if Zoom tells me it will create a transcript automatically for me, I say yes, please! Still, there’s all this junk in a Zoom transcript that requires further cleaning. I have done this pre-processing of Zoom transcripts now across three separate research projects, but enough is enough: There needs to be a simpler solution. And there is. It’s R.

CRediT where CRediT is due.

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Adding a CRediT statement to a manuscript can be one of the most satisfying experiences in the publication process. But it also, most often, comes at a time where you are done thinking. I made a tool to take thinking out of the process while still making sure that CRediT goes where CRediT is due.

Letter to the Editor: Young Children and Screen Time

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On the 26th of January, we published a letter to the editor in the Irish Times, highlighting some of our recent findings at the UCD Babylab, and urging a fresh policy discussion that includes young children and parents.