Confessions of a Columnist

Writing is Suffering

Americovision Song Contest

Forums that bring nation-states together to wrangle out their differences in song is a great idea.

The first girl in the family to go to university

The fact that she hadn’t been allowed to become a teacher, she found painful even when she was ninety

Gathering differently?

"No longer do I have to hunt for my passport in its ‘secure’ hiding place or scrub last conference’s mayonnaise stains from my presentation blouse"

Quarantine turned me into a grandma

"Has Covid made me that friend that shows up at parties with homemade cookies and is leaving before 11 pm?"

Office surplus

"My favorite desk, a grey Steelcase table, I found in that warehouse"

New website: Together we know more than on our own

Time to Open Up

Incidental coughing, is that a symptom?

Is economics a religion?

What if economics is less objective than is commonly presupposed?

A Toddler’s Wisdom on Happiness

No invincibility here

Solastalgia, from a distance

Submitted!

If someone would look into my window they wouldn't know what life-altering moment I just sent into cyberspace.

An escape from my thesis

"I can't make the thesis-meeting; I am currently sipping a Sangria in Granada"

The Magic of Cafés

"As if I'm trying to create even more guilt and stress, I push the deadlines away from me"

'Studying in the Park'

Don't I know that the wind, just like sea sirens, is beautiful only to lure me into a trap?

To post or not to post?

Exam Diary Entry

I had Corona

8 deadlines, 10 days

UM Mask Stalk through Madrid

Emerge into cultures, locally

The Ultimate Test

Midterms with Gossip Breaks

Opinion article: A call for proposals, now also in education!

Opinion: Unequal distribution of Covid-19 vaccination

Daniël van den Hove: “It is up to us, the professors, to set a good example”

Opinion: When are you a scientist?

“The students at Bogazici University will resist Erdogan”

Opinion article

Response to debate about what it means to be a scientist

On being a scientist: is it a lifestyle or a 9-5-job?

Opinion articles

“Some aspects of Trumpism are here to stay”

Opinion article

Greta has shown: everybody can make a difference

“Rarely have Americans felt so misunderstood by their fellow Americans”

Opinion article

Sabic, it’s your mess that we are cleaning up

Opinion

The many shades of deconfinement

A tale of two sisters

Europeans, learn to live with Trumpism; it is here to stay

Inaugural lecture on Trump’s foreign policy