My blogging rate has slowed down somewhat of late, related I think to the subject matter of the last post. Actually, it's probably possible to use blogging as a kind of cognitive behaviour therapy in which you set a small goal to write something every day (or week or whatever) and make sure that you include it as a must-do task. Providing you make the target, and it should be achievable, because it could just be a matter of pointing out an interesting new paper you have come across, then it should be of some positive impact on one's mental health. I dare say, though, that authors in general would not highlight the mental health benefits of making a career of writing.
I don't have such a recent interesting paper to highlight, though I expect that if I looked at the latest edition of Physical Review C or Journal of Physics G or similar, then I'd find many interesting papers. One thing I can report is that I just finished my marking of exam papers, it being the end of semester (though I've got plenty of coursework assignments still to mark). That means the students in their final year are on the cusp of becoming graduates and moving on to the next stage of their lives. I wish them all the best of luck! I know at least a few of them will be going on to PhD study, including one to my previous employer, the University of Tennessee (pictured).
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