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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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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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James Nachtwey's TED Prize wish: Use my photographs to stop extreme drug resistant tubercolosis
One of the people I admire the most is James Nachtwey, ever since seeing “War Photographer“, the documentary about him. I have watched it four or five times by now, and each time I’m deeply moved both by his photographs and his refusal to become cynical despite the atrocities and suffering he has witnessed. “Reticent…
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