by jordicabot | Nov 7, 2012 | doing research, funny, Research Rants
From PhD Comics (one of our must-follow research resources), the Profzi Scheme (discovered via Moshe Vardi). Take a moment to think if you´re part of it!! If you liked this post, you should also follow my thoughts on twitter about software development or web design,...
by jordicabot | Oct 31, 2012 | funny, Research Rants
Via Dirk I discovered this funny page collecting animated gifs that can be used to describe the ups and downs of our research life. If you don´t have time to go through all of them, at least check these three: – Grant proposals vs. reality – Given your...
by jordicabot | Jun 14, 2012 | doing research, funny, Research Rants
This PhD Comics strip illustrates perfectly a common mistake of young PhD Students. They come to us (PhD supervisors, advisers, directors or whatever you want to call it) looking for solutions but this is not our job. We are not here to take the decisions for them....
by jordicabot | May 30, 2012 | evaluating research, funny, Research Rants
How do you explain to a young colleague that his paper was rejected because the reviewer thinks that “… it sounds rare to have so few people doing any work in that direction…”. So, dear reviewer, if I understood you correctly, you are...
by jordicabot | Feb 14, 2012 | funny, Research Rants, teaching
(I’d love to provide the attribution for the image but I’ve no idea who created it, if you do please let me know; I discovered via Martin Gaedke)
by jordicabot | Oct 8, 2011 | funny, job, Research Rants
(cross posted in the software modeling blog) My recipe Step 1: Propose an UML assignment to your students (it doesn’t need to be very difficult, if the group is big enough you are guaranteed to have some that are lazy and rich enough at the same time) Step 2: Wait...
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