Category: academic life
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Call for Papers: 5th International Conference on e-Social Science
Well, I’m stuck at the Toronto Airport because I missed my connecting flight to Raleigh, NC. At least I found an AC outlet for my laptop – now I’ve settled down on the floor with a splendid view overlooking… the toilet entrance. Thank you, Air Canada. On a more positive note: I’ve been invited to…
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Explaining the elements in a series of amazing videos
I just came across this, and it’s brilliant. Not least because our name, Mendeley, was partly taken from the discoverer of the periodic table. A team of chemists from the University of Nottingham set out to explain every single element in a brief, but very informative and funny, video: The Periodic Table of Videos. The…
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Our experience with the RIN Tender "Web 2.0 resources for researchers"
Happy New Year from everyone at Team Mendeley! We’re excited to be back from the holidays and buzzing with ideas. We’ve got a couple of newsworthy bits, but that’s for another post. This one is about a research proposal we submitted in December, trying to get selected by the Research Information Network for a commissioned…
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Mendeley Demos at Princeton, NYU, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Yale, Dartmouth and the IEEE e-Science Conference
Oh dear, I’ve got a hard time keeping my eyes open, so I’ll just recount the facts. I’m sitting in my bed at the Latham Hotel, Philadelphia, where I arrived this afternoon (early-morning flight from London to Washington, then on with a regional jet). Not having slept very much last night, I felt like taking…
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Anatomy at the Royal Institution
As a recent member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, I’m marveling at their events calendar which strikes me as hands down the best entertainment programme in London (if you’re into scientific talks, that is). Two of the four lectures I’ll be attending in the coming weeks are part of the members-only, black-tie “Friday…
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