by jordicabot | Aug 9, 2026 | doing research, evaluating research, funding, presenting, publishing, Research Rants
📚 Apparently, 155 pieces of research advice were not enough. The second edition of How to Survive (and Thrive) in Research is out! 👉 https://research-rants.com/ Based on the feedback received so far, I’ve added 15 new pieces of advice, bringing the total to 170+...
by jordicabot | Jan 29, 2026 | doing research, Research Rants
In the spirit of the well-known concept of awesome lists (some so popular that, in fact, they top the popularity charts in GitHub), I’ve started the Awesome Research Advice list. Check it out on GitHub and make sure you send me your contributions. Note the goal...
by jordicabot | Jan 3, 2025 | doing research, Research Rants
Sustainability of open source is a known challenge and one that depends on a project’s capability to attract a community of contributors (and not only coders). A common strategy to smooth the onboarding of new contributions is by tagging some project issues as...
by jordicabot | Feb 4, 2024 | doing research, Research Rants
Artificial Intelligence papers are taking over many software conferences. We have recently seen this extreme case: Software engineering is dead, long live ChatGPT 😉 https://t.co/L5BUnsYFug pic.twitter.com/Aq4Y36dAVK — JB (@JBezivin) February 2, 2024 Even if the...
by jordicabot | Jan 30, 2023 | doing research, publishing, Research Rants
Research is a collaborative effort. This is clear. But I confess I have a soft spot for single-author papers. When I was growing up (as a researcher) I admired the leader of my group for consistently publishing papers on his own in the top conferences in our area...
by jordicabot | Jun 13, 2022 | philosophy, publishing, Research Rants
More and more papers are published every year. Just look at the graphic above (and DBLP already does a good job in filtering out most predatory journals!). It’s probably true that we publish more high-quality research than ever. But it’s also true that we...
