Category: hard research life
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Where did Mendeley go?
Happy Thanksgiving: Around 5pm yesterday Mendeley services ceased when all of our servers went offline simultaneously; we quickly realised that something was very wrong with our connection to them and this was confirmed by our hosting provider’s customer service calling us to let us know. The details are not completely clear at the moment however…
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Oy vey. Scientific discourse trainwreck.
As an addendum to Jason’s earlier post, here’s a story of scientific discourse gone horribly wrong. It would be funny if it wasn’t so.. somehow really not funny. How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 123 Easy Steps http://d.scribd.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=18773744&access_key=key-1md5zdvu8wpysalhsmqg&page=1&version=1&viewMode= Via björn.brembs.blog.
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Websense is blocking access to Mendeley… dictators around the globe rejoice
Today a user told us that Websense, the internet censorship “content-control” software, has marked the Mendeley website as “Illegal or Questionable” and blocked access to it. I wonder how that happened? At least we’re in good company. Websense is blocking access to Amnesty International in many parts of the world (wait… now it makes sense!…
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An excellent EuroScience adventure, Part I
Well, what can I say! The EuroScience Open Forum 2008 in Barcelona has turned out great so far. Due to its considerable greatitude and excellent greatishness, Jan decided not to let me have all the fun by myself and joined me yesterday. On the downside, the heat and travel stress didn’t exactly help me get…
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