by jordicabot | Jul 6, 2015 | evaluating research, funny, Research Rants
Maybe it’s because the hypercriticality of our research area but if I had to summarize what I think it’s my main role as PC Chair, I´d say is the following: (if you don’t recognize the song the meme is paraphrasing, you’re too young to be doing...
by jordicabot | Jan 12, 2015 | evaluating research, funny, Research Rants
Very funny (and sad at the same time) collection of reviewer’s comments on research papers on http://shitmyreviewerssay.tumblr.com/ (also on twitter at yourpapersucks). The comments mix criticisms on what probably are really bad papers The best thing about the...
by jordicabot | Nov 27, 2014 | funny, publishing, Research Rants
This didn’t happen to a fried (or a friend of a friend…). This happened to me. I’m just removing personal details of the person that sent the email (“hate the deed, not the doer” or whatever works as the English translation of the Spanish...
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...
by jordicabot | Mar 8, 2013 | funny, presenting, Research Rants
Bad Presentation Bingo is 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 its content. Really worth to check...
by jordicabot | Feb 4, 2013 | funny, organization, Research Rants, team
Deep inside, I’m a nice guy so when I saw our last full team meeting was going to be a long one I decided to buy some coffee and pastries for the team. In fact, my hidden goal was to improve the productivity of the meeting (better to have breakfast altogether...