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Peer Review is Broken
Can We Fix It?
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Louise Pay, PhD
What’s at the Bottom of That Elevator Shaft?
Turning a negative spiral into discernment
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Louise Pay, PhD
The Empathy Trap: When Good Intentions Hurt Communication
Feeling Other People’s Feelings? Read This Before You Ruin a Relationship
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Louise Pay, PhD
Empathy as a Strategic Tool for Handling Stress in Difficult Workplace Situations
If you’re being emotionally manipulated, this is your permission (and instruction manual) to be emotionally manipulative right back. (Sort of.)
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Louise Pay, PhD
Is your desk chair out to get you?
<something about not always writing about writing>
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Louise Pay, PhD
What Do You Mean, “It’s Obvious”?
How smart people unintentionally lose their audience
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Louise Pay, PhD
The Dark Side of Manifestation
For entertainment purposes only
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Louise Pay, PhD
The one question that will help YOU stop micromanaging
Trust me.
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Louise Pay, PhD
7 Reasons to Hire a Scientific Editor
(The journal won't always save you)
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Louise Pay, PhD
Language barrier, perhaps?
English language editing isn’t just for typos.
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Louise Pay, PhD
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Atropine, Academics, and Attempted Murder
Like true crime stories? This might be for you.
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Louise Pay, PhD
Write a Scientific Paper in 37 Easy Steps: An Absolutely Useless Guide
Ensure you have your caffeine, snacks, imposter syndrome, and 398 open browser tabs ready before you start.
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Louise Pay, PhD
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