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academic productivity

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ACADEMIC PRODUCTIVITY is a survival guide for the 21st century researcher. Written by a small team of academics focusing on the topics on knowledge acquisition, production and dissemination, new technologies and productivity strategies.

• Added on: Sep 8th, 2007
• Country: Spain
• Language: English

• Author: Jose
• Listed in: Education & Learning Development and Growth
• Tags: Software technology self-improvement productivity academic productivity lifehacking

Recent Posts

• Buzzwords: Rise and fall of cold fusion and feminism

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 03:43 in articles, trends, research, visualization, popularity, isi, phdcomics, web of knowledge

  A glimpse at the hottest topics in scholarly literature according to PhdComics. [via FlowingData] ...

• Review of Google Wave as a scholarly HTML editor

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 07:37 in Web 2.0, writing, collaboration, Announcements, wave collaboration writing

  Peter Sefton wrote a series of posts on wave. He has published on Scholarly HTML so I read attentively what he has to say. What follows is some highlights of his posts, and my thinking about where things are going. There are at least four things tha...

• The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 10:26 in Web 2.0, writing, collaboration, social media, social software, workshop, cfp, e-science, cscw

  Call for participation for a workshop at CSCW 2010 [submission deadline: November 20, 2009] The confluence of two major trends in scientific research is leading to an upheaval in standard scientific practice and collaborative technologies. A new gene...

• Blog-sized lit reviews

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 10:36 in Software, blog, hacks, hack, wordpress, writing, latex, computing tips

  When I started my DPhil, I set myself assignments in order to cover the lit review in easy bite-sized chunks. This worked pretty well but the collated material was scattered across different Word documents, which meant that I couldn’t look at ...

• Technology and collaboration: A survey

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 01:58 in Software, Web 2.0, prize, surveys, collaboration, social media, survey, e-science, qlectives

  My colleague Alastair is conducting a survey about online academic collaboration, use of tools and attitudes to technology in the Academia as part of the Qlectives project. All participants who supply an email address (and complete the questionnaire ...

• LaTeX rendering of equations in Google Wave – LaTeXy

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 05:41 in Web 2.0, reading, writing, wikis, wave, early-adopter

  It was a matter of time before someone wrote a robot that grabbed latex  and returned an image after latex processing. LaTeXy does exactly that and has just increased tenfold the usefulness of wave for academics. ...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Jan Husdal

Excellent! Being a researcher myself, I gained many insights and got a few laughs too from this blog.

Posted: June 19th, 2008 | More Reviews From husdal | Report This Comment

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