Category: phdchat
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Generation Open: A Diary of OpenCon 2014
Day 0 of OpenCon started with me missing the pre-conference drinks reception because my flight from Chicago was delayed by 2 hours. I got into Washington, D.C. (DCA) at about midnight & then had to wait half an hour for a blue line train to take me the short distance from the airport to the…
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I’ve enrolled in some MOOCs
I’ve written about MOOCs last December but never actually enrolled in one myself… until now. Sure, I’ve done Codecademy courses and Codeschool courses which I’ve immensely enjoyed but they’re perhaps(?) not quite the same thing. This year I’ve decided to bite the bullet and do some Coursera courses (depicted below, confusingly there are different courses run…
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Research Tips & Tricks – creating RSS feeds and filters
Yesterday’s post about haywire RSS feeds, reminded me that I should perhaps share a trick or two I know about RSS feeds. This post assumes you know what an RSS feed is, and why they’re awesome. I still encounter researchers everyday who have no idea what an RSS feed is. I have no idea how…
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FUBAR’d ScienceDirect RSS feeds
This is just a short post: to vent my anger at a fair few of my RSS feeds being totally FUBAR‘d at the moment. It’s too long for a tweet, and too short for a full post, but here goes: At least three of my ScienceDirect journal article alert RSS feeds are totally FUBAR’d at…
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My 1st peer-review published paper
After more than 6 months of waiting, my long overdue first paper has finally been published in Nature Why do I say ‘long overdue’? Doesn’t it usually take a long time for academic papers to get published? Well… if you read it here [paywalled], you’ll see it’s only 600 words and 1 figure (at the…
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#RoadWarrior
I’ve been travelling rather a LOT in the last 6 weeks or so; Rhossili Bay, London, Edinburgh, Leicester, Barcelona, Cambridge. It’s so nice to be back in Bath for a bit again. While the memories are still fresh I thought I’d write a short summary of what I’ve been doing -> so much to update…