by jordicabot | Aug 11, 2016 | Research Rants
As an author and editor of journal papers, there is nothing worse than reviewers that accept to review a paper, propose a major revision and then decline to review the revised version of the paper. This is the worse thing you could do. If you accept to review a paper...
by jordicabot | Jun 22, 2016 | Research Rants
Listening to Kevin Kelly (Senior Maverick and co-founder at Wired Magazine, co-foounder of the All Species Foundation and, among many other things, now author of The Inevitable: understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future) on this Tim Ferriss...
by jordicabot | May 27, 2016 | Research Rants, writing
I was listening on Tim Ferriss podcast this interview with best-seller writer Sebastian Junger when one of the things Sebastian said really ressonate with me. They were talking about writer’s block when Sebastian said: You never want to solve a research problem...
by jordicabot | Feb 14, 2016 | funding, proposals, Research Rants
A couple of weeks ago I submitted my proposal for the ERC Consolidator Grant 2016 call. Since I believe that open science includes not only the actual research activities but the research ideas themselves, I’ve decided to make my proposal public. You can read...
by jordicabot | Jan 14, 2016 | affiliate, business model, stories entrepreneur, Uncategorized
Yes I do mean 300 and no 300K. And yes, I’m aware this is an epic fail (if you’re new to this site, please check my domain URL) but with so many posts of people making thousands of dollars a year (even some a month) with affiliate amazon links, I wanted to...