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Ad Lagendijk
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2012-03-31
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1. ScienceSurvivalBlog
Professional scientists write about their scientific life. Contributors are scientists in various stages of their career. For outsiders this will give an unprecedented insight in the professional life of scientists.
Tags: impact factor, competetition, social networks, collaboration, presentations
Latest Blog Posts
- A close encounter with Diederik Stapel and his act of fraudYudhijit Bhattacharjee, a staff writer at Science magazine, has written an elegant article in the New York Times about the Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel. The scientific misconduct of Stapel, including fabrication of data for at least 30 public...
- Peer review: don’t let the journals handle it?on Mar 10, 2013 in Getting publishedPeer review is central to science. But the system is functioning far from perfectly. One issue is that it is difficult to find good reviewers. This was already discussed five years ago on this blog and it was suggested that paying reviewers or making...
- How to choose your key publication?The scientific community keeps on finding new ways to facilitate to judge scientists. The old-fashioned way of reading her papers, listening to her talks, interviewing her for more than an hour, reading recommendation letters, and consulting collea...
- How to choose your key publications?The scientific community keeps on finding new ways to facilitate to judge scientists. The old-fashioned way of reading her papers, listening to her talks, interviewing her for more than an hour, reading recommendation letters, and consulting collea...
- Inviting co-authorson Oct 7, 2012 in Ethics Getting published PhD life career co-authors collaboration h-index Impact factor papersA problem I often encounter is deciding who to invite as co-authors. On one hand, you want to show appreciation to the people that helped you in the process of obtaining your results. On the other hand, generously adding authors will dilute the contr...
- “Predator” conferences and open-access publisherson Sep 30, 2012 in Conferences Getting published Miscellaneous conference invited talks open access publicationsThis week I received the following email stating “The purpose of this letter is to formally invite you, on behalf of the Organizing Committee, to be the speaker at the upcoming “2nd International Conference on Nanotek and Expo” (Nan...
- Which is a better document standard: pdf or xml?Some time ago I was asked by Oxford University Press to write an article for their Library Magazine about which document format is better: pdf or xml. I defended pdf and following is my text. Martin Fenner defended xml. You can download both contribu...
- My group, Your group, or Our groupIn science the dilemma of either cooperating or competing is everywhere. The situation is never black or white and depends on the discipline. In this post I will limit myself to the typical small-science group model: one group leader, one or two post...
- Biomeeter: find your way in the world of conferenceson Sep 14, 2012 in Conferences Research and educationPresenting your data at conferences is key for doing good science. However, finding the right conference can be as challenging as the actual experiments. Especially when you work interdisciplinary there is a lack of overview of what is organized and...
- Effectiveness of large scale conferencesLast May I visited the first large scale international conference (CLEO) during my PhD. I was shocked about the enormous contrast with smaller scale (more specialized) conferences. In this post, I will discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages...
- Applying successfully for a PhD position by emailVery handy guide for prospective PhD students. It gives advice on how they can send much better applications by email.
- Academia can benefit a lot from a more democratic funding systemWith advances in communication tools and online social interaction, it is nowadays much easier and cheaper to perform numerous large scale polls with various degrees of control. Peer review by a few anonymous colleaguse should be replaces by these p...
- Academia can benefit a lof from a more democratic funding systemMuch more has been said about the failure of current grant system than that has actually changed. My favorite opinion piece is this one by Peter A. Lawrence. The single-sentence abstract says it all: “The granting system turns young scientists...
- Poor quality of slide-sharing servicesA sample presentation is uploaded to four cloud services for sharing slides: (i) SlideShare, (ii) authorSTREAM, (iii) Google Docs and (iv) SlideBoom. With the exception of SlideBoom the services are of unacceptable poor quality. Google Docs is abomin...
- Poor quality of slide-sharing servicesA sample presentation is uploaded to four cloud services for sharing slides: (i) SlideShare, (ii) authorSTREAM, (iii) Google Docs and (iv) SlideBoom. With the exception of SlideBoom the services are of unacceptable poor quality. Google Docs is abomin...
- Important feature all slide-sharing-services lackA feature request for slide-sharing services is put forward that would extend the usefulness of these services tremendously. In the first place scientists would profit, but many other professionals would greatly appreciate this feature. Numerous peop...
- Doing multidisciplinary researchIntroduction Science in the 20th century has been divided into a distinct number of more or less separate disciplines ranging from Mathematics and Physics to Biology and Medicine. This distinction was naturally based on the different aspects of our m...
- Doing multidisciplinary researchIntroduction Science in the 20th century has been divided into a distinct number of more or less separate disciplines ranging from Mathematics and Physics to Biology and Medicine. This distinction was naturally based on the different aspects of our m...
- Should editors of Science and Nature socialize with scientists?on Mar 30, 2012 in Conferences Ethics Getting published politics high impact Impact factor Nature Science Magazine social networkingIn this post the ever increasing socializing with journal editors at conferences is critically discussed. Suggestions are put forward to make the social role of junior scientists more prominent at conferences and preventing the successful scientists...
- Goodbye Outlook, enter Thunderbirdon Mar 29, 2012 in Efficient email Tips for junior scientists useful software cloud gmail Google Microsoft Mozilla Outlook ThunderbirdThis post is the ultimate, mobile-site-friendly, migration guide from Outlook to Thunderbird. If you want the short version, go immediately to the section To wrap it all up . The author describes in detail the design flaws in Microsoft's Outlook and...
