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 | Dec 29, 2015 | industry relations, proposals, Research Rants
The role of Academia in the startup world is a topic that interests many of us (in fact, it should be of interest to any researcher, even if you’re not planning to build a company yourself). In this podcast, Marc Andreessen talks about this same topic. Given...
by jordicabot | Dec 7, 2015 | Research Rants, writing
Direclty from the James Altucher show, the magician Penn Jillette gives an invaluable advice for aspiring writers, which also applies to any researcher (in case you just joined the research community, you’ll soon notice most of what we do is writing: papers,...
by jordicabot | Aug 26, 2015 | evaluating research, Research Rants
First of all , the “I” in the post title is not me, it’s Richard Paige, Professor of Enterprise Systems and (as of May 2015) Deputy Head of Department (Research) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. And besides all this,...
by jordicabot | Aug 11, 2015 | funding, proposals, Research Rants
Sometimes a few numbers go a long way to explain the deplorable status of research funding in a country, in this case, Spain (but unfortunately I’m pretty sure I could write the same for a few other ones). Some time ago I applied for a grant from the...
by jordicabot | Aug 6, 2015 | evaluating research, Research Rants
Read about the new features of metaScience, an online service we released a couple of months ago to give some insights on conferences (see the original announcement here). We have now released the new version of our service, which features new metrics for conferences...
