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Cartoon gallery: Bugs and art
Here are all the cartoons you might have missed over the last week or so. Follow on instagram, twitter or Facebook to see daily cartoons from ErrantScience.
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Cartoon gallery: Pancakes and chocolate love
Here are all the cartoons you might have missed over the last week or so. Follow on instagram, twitter or Facebook to see daily cartoons from ErrantScience.
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The middle writing slog
Writing is hard. It can be hard to start, hard to end and hard to keep doing it even when you’re in the middle of it. For short pieces like writing blog posts, the start and the end basically merge together to make a middle (fun fact: I sometimes write Read more…
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Preparing your reference section: a terrible guide
As an academic or researcher you are the top of a pyramid of human knowledge stretching back thousands of years. Your knowledge is the result of a litany of people before you building one small piece of the very large puzzle that you are now solving. Now, whether you are Read more…
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Touchy the experiment?
The average science experiment has two distinct parts to it. The part when you touch it and the part where you don’t. Some experiments require constant touching, but in general these needy experiments are rare. The vast majority require a bit of touching and a bit of standing and waiting Read more…
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Results of our survey and the future of ErrantScience
This is unprecedented: this is the second ‘meta’ blog post in a month! Normally we do these once a year at MOST. So for those wanting some irreverent science, this is not your week I’m afraid. A while back we did the survey into what people enjoy on ErrantScience and Read more…
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Deadlines
Deadlines are tricky things. When you are a young researcher deadlines are scary things that cause sleepless nights and sweaty lab coats. When you are an older researcher deadlines are more suggested, vague and probably for someone else. The word ‘deadline’ means helpfully pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Read more…
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Cartoon pens and researchers
So a few weeks ago we released the ErrantScience survey. We’ll release the results in the near future, but based on that survey we’re going to be making some changes. Some will happen very quickly (new site coming soon), some we’ll being trying out new ideas slowly. Today is a Read more…
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The art of last minute presentation making
In previous years I’ve always started the year with an article on how to keep your research resolutions or what resolutions to make. But I always feel like that is reaching out to a niche section of my audience and doesn’t speak to the majority of us that understand that Read more…
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ErrantScience in 2019 and a survey (please come do it)
Hello 2019 people! It’s a new year and that means some annual ErrantScience self reflective chat. If you are interested in a bit about behind the scenes of ErrantScience keep reading. If not then scroll straight to the survey, pretty please 🙂 2018 was, to put it mildly, a bit Read more…