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Caring responsibilities: the constraint is unpredictability, not hours
Researchers with caring responsibilities usually have fewer uninterrupted hours, and those hours cannot be scheduled reliably.
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Tools, databases, and reference materials for engaging with Vietnamese academia
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Finding funding: search systematically, and check what is internal first
Researchers regularly miss opportunities they were eligible for, usually because nobody was looking systematically.
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Tools: choose few, learn them properly, and check what you already have
Researchers spend more time evaluating tools than the tools ever save. Most needs are met by a small standard set.
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Supervision: what nobody tells you before you start doing it
Most people begin supervising without training, doing it the way they were supervised — for better or worse.
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Free resources that most researchers do not know exist
A substantial amount of what researchers pay for or go without is available free — the difficulty is knowing it is there.
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What to set up early: five things that pay off for a whole career
A small number of things set up early save a great deal of work later. Most people discover them after they were needed.
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