Category: academic life
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5 steps to disrupt AND save academia. Hint: use startup investors
The result of too many PhDs has meant a surplus of academics doing multiple post-doc tours of duty, lower wages, and a waste of tax payer money. All would be fine if there were enough jobs outside of academia to support those researchers in industry and government, but there are not. Let’s clarify that, there…
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Academic SEO – Market (And Publish) or Perish
We held another Mendeley Open Office on Friday, November 26, 2010. Trying something new, we are now doing talks. And as promised, here is the talk I gave on increasing the visibility of your research. I’ve added speech bubbles to the slides to give some of them more context in case you were not here…
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Our Office Is Warm!
To everyone who came out to our Office Event: a special thanks for braving the cold and warming us up. We met lots of fun and interesting people from NYU, Columbia, SPARC, New York Academy of Sciences, American Museum of Natural History and a few twitter invites. The night started with yummy food and delicious…
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Go and Get Your Mendeley Gear!
Our new Cafepress Store is up and running. Now you can eat, sleep, and drink in style. We’ve covered the basics: t-shirts, hoodies, magnets, mugs, etc. But Cafepress is customizable, so if you need a baby pajama for a future Mendeley user, let us know and we’ll add it to the store. And FYI, this store…
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