by jordicabot | Aug 23, 2021 | presenting, Research Rants
The research community is now discussing whether conferences should be back to being in-person, continue as virtual or follow some kind of hybrid model. I have a different proposal. I suggest taking this opportunity to “kill” a bunch of conferences. Even...
by jordicabot | Jan 3, 2016 | doing research, presenting, Research Rants, social, Uncategorized
It’s time for all you to set your goals for this year we’re starting. Let me add one to your to-do list: Have a strong presence online!!!! This goal has four big advantages over any other goal you may have set to accomplish this year: It’s simple...
by jordicabot | Jun 27, 2014 | organization, presenting, Research Rants
On Tuesday, I attended this workshop and I really enjoyed it a lot. The difference with other workshops? This workshop was by invitation (open to all the particpiants in the ASE PC Board meeting taking place the day after) so no call for papers, no publications of any...
by jordicabot | May 6, 2014 | evaluating research, presenting, Research Rants
We recently completed a research work that ended with a bunch of negative results. Even if negative, we thought the results we obtained were valuable because, in our opinion, were not obvious (in fact we wanted to “prove” that the variables we studied were...
by jordicabot | Aug 14, 2013 | doing research, presenting, publishing, Research Rants
As a researcher you want to reach as many people as possible. For sure, open access would help by making sure everybody that wants to read of your papers can, but before anybody tries to read one of your papers s/he has to find it first. This is not a problem for your...
by jordicabot | Jun 20, 2013 | funny, presenting, Research Rants
In a previous post we talked about Bad Presentation Bingo, an effort by the Illinois Science Council to encourage scientists to be considerate of their audiences (especially public audiences) by paying attention to their presentation’s style and format as much as to...
