Xenia Schmalz's blog

  LinkedIn suggested a job as a perfect match for my skills: Being a ghost writer. Curious, I clicked on the job descripti...

  Admittedly, I have yet to publish any large-scale cross-linguistic study. Actually, I have not even completed data colle...

I recently got a grant rejection - but I swear this blog post won't be whinging about rejections. Rather, I'd like to start by shari...

I had to force my hand to sign my last work contract. A work contract for 12 more month, plus an additional document with a justification th...

I think I really need a holiday.  Many of us are researchers because, in some way or another, we want to make science better. Yet, we rarely...

My toddler is growing up in a linguistic environment that I call multilingual and some people tell us is "confusing". Growing up w...

As we're moving flats soon, I threw out a pile of papers, about half a meter tall when all stacked up. I've accumulated these papers...