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I started my PhD in October 2014 - overall, I have worked in academic research for almost 8 years - am I therefore an erudite school girl? Or, since I published my first English-written paper in 2018 - and I have only existed for 4 research years - may I be considered just a scholarly toddler?

Some years ago, I was a PhD Student and observing one of my best friend’s struggles to progress in their career. After two rounds of a 1 year postdoc contract, they applied for postdoc jobs and interviewed multiple times for projects they would have been a good fit for but got rejected.

Note: this post is an adaptation of a lesson that my dad, Enrico, recorded and posted on YouTube for his high school students during the first Covid lockdown. I have yet to listen to a better explanation of the scientific method, and I always felt that such clarity should reach a wider audience.

Language development is the story of the development of language. Social development regards the development of social interaction. Motor development involves the motor system… What about cognitive development, what is it that humans and animals develop?

The Introduction of the Introduction I am a visual thinker, and a graphomaniac with a passion for notebooks - the analog ones. During my studies, I wrote tons of notebooks about the most disparate topics.