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Academic Productivity
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A survival guide for the 21st century researcher
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Courting controversy pt. 2
Just a quick follow-up to last week’s post on changes in higher education. The New York Times published an article on Friday, highlighting two new books on the future of the American academy and picking up some of the points I discussed last time:
The labor system, for one thing, is clearly unjust. [...]
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Courting controversy
There’s nothing like an overtly contentious statement to bring in the traffic. And as they go, this is a pretty good one: “Why higher education is like a Ponzi scheme“.
The linked post is actually for a radio program, the content of which was based on this original article by a professor of psychology from [...]
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Mendeley goes open
After a few months of private testing, Mendeley announced the public release of their open API. This will allow developers and researchers to build applications and data analysis on top of a massive database of human-annotated scientific references.
We are excited to see our friends at Mendeley push forward on the open science front by making [...]
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Science Online London 2010
There is only a bunch of tickets left for one of the most exciting annual events in the area of ICT for science. Hosted by Mendeley, Nature and the British Library, the second edition of Science Online London (3-4 September 2010) promises to bring together hackers, academics, publishers and startups in the field of software/services [...]
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Knuth announces iTeX
Donald Knuth announced he would make an earthshaking announcement at TUG 2010. The breaking news is the plan to release the next-generation TeX engine. Read the comments and a brief summary of the announcement in perfect Stevenote style from Slashdot.
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