All Researchers Should Become Entrepreneurs

by jordicabot | Feb 24, 2021 | Research Rants, stories entrepreneur

We often complain about the challenges associated with a fruitful research-industry collaboration. The current pandemic has just aggravated them as, clearly, companies face difficult times and have mostly paused their R&I activities. In this context, we propose...

Why I am so proud of our two best demo awards in 2020

by jordicabot | Nov 2, 2020 | evaluating research, publishing, Research Rants

This year, we got two best demo awards: Gadolinium: Monitoring Non-Functional Properties of REST APIs won the best poster/demo award at ICWE 2020 PapyGame: Let’s Play Modeling won the best demo award at Models 2020 And I’m proud of it. You may think that...

Universities need to start hiring remote researchers

by jordicabot | Sep 21, 2020 | doing research, job, Research Rants

I hate working from home every single day. And I miss a lot seeing my colleagues at the office (ok, I especially miss our coffees together, great for team building!). We don’t need to be together to write a paper or a project report but I still prefer...

I have 100K monthly visits to my research sites but my government doesn’t care

by jordicabot | Aug 17, 2020 | doing research, evaluating research, philosophy, Research Rants

Last month, I was discussing with Feli, from the budgeting team at my university, to upgrade the plan I had with WPEngine as we were paying overage charges due to excess visits. The plan was capped 100.000 thousand visits per month. And many months we were going over...

Do you want to be a PI? – Careful with what you wish for

by jordicabot | Jun 6, 2020 | job, Research Rants, team

When I was a postdoc in Toronto, most of my fellow postdocs (not only from CS) wanted to become a PI (Principal Investigator). It seemed the logical next step in our careers. And it probably is. But I don’t think any of us understood how “happy” we...