Category: hard research life
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Worst. Cough. Ever. But science cheers me up!
I thought I only had a little cold – that’s why, instead of resting and going to bed early, I had to prance around in the rain late at night for our Ikeodyssey. When my cough didn’t get better until yesterday and my voice started to disappear, I went to the NHS walk-in clinic in…
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HOWTO: Mendeley on OS X/Linux/Toaster
Update: We now have native versions for Windows, OS X and Linux, so I have crossed out the instructions on how to run Mendeley using WINE and Darwine. The instructions for running Mendeley on your toaster remain valid. ————————————————————— [June 13, 2008]: My name is Mike and I’m a software engineer. No, I won’t fix…
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Worst. Result. Ever. Brilliant!
By chance, I stumbled across One Big Lab yesterday, a very interesting blog on Open Science maintained by (as far as I can tell) four Stanford bioinformatics Ph.D. students. One of the many gems to be discovered there is a series of t-shirt designs called “Worst. Result. Ever.”: You’ve been there, done that. Spent hours,…
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Are you advising Master Theses?
Well, I am. Currently I have six students writing their master thesis under my supervision, and if you’ve ever done this before, then you know the amount of work that goes into that job. Especially when you have to compile and distribute literature lists to each of the students, it can be quite a hassle…
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Long nights in London
Some news, but no academic content in this post – it’s just about the real and hard life of a start-up called “Mendeley” and the long nights of the founders. Be advised: sad pictures inside…
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