by jordicabot | Jan 11, 2016 | organizing, Research Rants, tools, writing
James Altucher proposes to come up and write down ten ideas a day, no matter what as part of your “daily practice” And he says there are three reasons to do this: Some of those ideas may actually be good. But don’t obsess with this. You’re just...
by jordicabot | Apr 18, 2015 | evaluating research, Research Rants, tools
Announcing the release of our new MetaScience online service that we have developed to help on the critical matter of evaluating the quality of conferences using metrics that are not usually available (unless you take the time to calculate them yourself). The current...
by jordicabot | Sep 3, 2013 | Research Rants, tools
Via this Software Carpentry blog post , I discover this initiative aimed at encouraging the citation of software. The idea is to include a CITATION file in the root directory of your code (obviously, we are assuming here that your reseach projects are distributed...
by jordicabot | May 22, 2013 | doing research, publishing, Research Rants, tools
The push for open access publications should not deviate our attention from an even (IMHO) bigger problem: open science. We can easily skip paywalls by making the pdfs of all our publications available for free in our home page (and now most of our journals grant you...
