by jordicabot | Mar 15, 2012 | Research Rants, Uncategorized
This has already appeared in thousands of sites in different forms (I discovered it here) but I felt this blog wouldn’t be complete if I didn’t not reproduce it here as well. It may look like a joke but there’s a lot of wisdom in these items. So,...
by jordicabot | Jan 18, 2012 | social, stories entrepreneur, Uncategorized, website creation
CSS Killswitch lets you non- destructively black out a difficult client’s website with the click of a button since as they say “Because sometimes, no matter how diplomatic you are, people are… well… mean.” I say this is a funny strategy...
by jordicabot | Aug 23, 2011 | Research Rants, Uncategorized
Having a bad review experience (like this bad reviewing patterns ) is always upsetting but for phd students it can be really disheartening since probably that paper had been his only focus for some months. When this happens I try to explain them that 1 – this is...
by jordicabot | Aug 11, 2011 | Research Rants, Uncategorized
Great variant of the well-known John Lennon’s “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans” sentence by the even greater 🙂 Jeff Gray. See the original mention (and a couple of variants) in Jeff’s google plus account
by jordicabot | Apr 27, 2011 | Research Rants, Uncategorized
If you are thinking the student can decide his/her own future, let me tell you, you are wrong! When looking for postdocs I’ve made the mistake several times to contact directly PhD Students that were about to finish her PhD in order to see if they were...
by jordicabot | Mar 14, 2011 | Research Rants, Uncategorized
Welcome to my research rants blog! – Because research is not only a passion but also a job and as all jobs, it sometimes sucks! Don’t get me wrong. My job as a researcher gives me a lot but I think it’s important young researchers realize soon enough...
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