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 | Aug 20, 2025 | Research Rants
What Do You Wish Someone Had Told You About Research? For over 20 years, I’ve worked as a researcher in software engineering – PhD student, postdoc, lecturer, permanent researcher, team leader… across five countries. Along the way, I’ve also created blogs,...
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...
