The Year in Wales: AutumnThese are extracts from letters to our family and friends back home and were written in the first year (of five…
Ondas gravitacionais, inovação e time-to-marketHá muito tempo, numa galáxia distante, após um sprint de duas semanas que meu time “gastou” com revisão bibliográfica de uma área bem longe de ser commodity, ouvi uma das frases mais chocantes da minhavida profissional como desenvolvedor de…
Should I pursue an academic career?Professors and advisors are often asked by master and PhD students as to whether an academic…
Organizing an Academic Conference? Don’t Forget TwitterI’m speaking at a conference later this year, and one of the organizers — the one tasked with managing social media during the event — asked me for advice. I figured it might make sense to write something more formal, to share not…
Self-Citation and BloggingLaura Manning raises an interesting point regarding my previous post on Turnitin, which is that I could/should be self-citing my blog posts. I know where she’s coming from and I appreciate the suggestion.
Ghostbusters: A Premonition for the Future of AcademiaUniversities may not value these four men, but…
Can’t Disrupt This: Elsevier and the 25.2 Billion Dollar A Year Academic Publishing BusinessTwenty years ago (December 18, 1995), Forbes predicted academic publisher Elsevier’s relevancy and life in the digital age to be short lived. In an article entitled “The…
Got An APT or Stalker Crawling All Over Your Systems? Lie to Those MFers & Then Lie Some More…Disclaimer: This is a rough draft. We’re taking feedback for the book up until it is complete (anticipated by March 2016), so send in your feedback.
I’m a female scientist, and I agree with Tim Hunt.Nobel Prize winner Sir Tim Hunt recently caused a stir when he argued that male and female scientists should work independently, because women are a distraction to men in the lab. At a conference, he was quoted as saying, “Let me tell you…
