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 | Nov 10, 2024 | evaluating research, Research Rants
Senior researchers have seen and experienced a lot. In terms of how research ideas are chosen, funded, conducted, assessed, promoted,… Typically in several countries and/or teams. Therefore, they have a better perspective to evaluate: PhD thesis Applicants to...
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 | Dec 28, 2022 | evaluating research, Research Rants, Uncategorized
More and more, all evaluation agencies and the research community as a whole is evolving to reward quality over quantity. All recent research assessment manifests (e.g DORA) clearly push for a qualitative evaluation where plain numbers (total amount of publications,...
by jordicabot | Nov 9, 2022 | organization, Research Rants, team
Not just yourself and your specific line of work. You are there representing the whole team. This means that your job is to be on the lookout for interesting works and connections for any of your teammates. Yes, you are there to publicize your latest paper (this is...
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