Category: research miscellanea
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An excellent Science Blogging, Soton Open Science Workshop, and Science in the 21st Century Conference Adventure, Part II
Long time no blog, indeed. I had wanted to write more about the numerous workshops and conferences I attended, but I didn’t get around to it because we’ve been very busy here at Mendeley HQ. Among other things, we’re planning a new release of Mendeley Desktop soon. Without giving too much away, it will include…
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Putting the roof terrace to good use
We had comparatively nice weather (i.e., it didn’t rain) in London yesterday – so we seized the chance and organised a Mendeley team BBQ on the roof terrace of our office! Luckily for us, we didn’t set the building on fire, and no one fell off the roof. Here are some impressions: Paul being happy…
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A new Knight joins Mendeley's round table
We are proud to introduce Robert Knight – yet another boost to our development team. It’s not that we didn’t enjoy the company of a certain other knight who said “Ni” (and from whom we rented our previous office): Still, we think Robert is a much better fit to our team. Ni! —— Robert Knight…
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Broken keyboard = hilarious dialogue
Today in our web developer Skype chat: Paul, Falk (brother-in-law of Paul) and Pankaj (freelance database expert). Paul Föckler, 10:46am: I added Pankaj to our web chat Falk Kühnel, 10:46am: hiankaj Falk Kühnel, 10:47am: damn, my eybor is bron i guess Cracks me up!
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The long night of bugfixing and other mysterious phenomena
Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. I won’t be able to travel to the AMA Summer Conference. At this time tomorrow, I should have been at the beach of San Diego with Michael and Thorsten and a nice cold beer, but it was not to be. My cough from the viral…
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