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Our free talk “How to cartoon your science” VOD
Free stuff is the best! And a close second is cartoons. Here’s the recording of our 30min talk How To Cartoon Your Science
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Life advice (part 1): Graphically coloured
Hello! Welcome friend. Pull up a rocking chair and sit down. I am yet another person who wants to tell you what to do and how to do it. But bear with me here – what follows is not your ordinary life advice. It is ‘Claire Murray Life Advice™’ (It Read more…
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How to dress a spider in a sparkly jumpsuit
ABSTRACT Spiders are an extremely diverse species and, as such, require a broad range of outfits to suit their habitat and plans for the day. As well as providing emotional wellbeing, the correct clothing can even help spiders perform at their best. Previous research has described how wearing a fisherman’s Read more…
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How to get the most out of your seminars: a terrible guide no one should follow
Seminars are a critical part of the academic learning experience. Academic teaching essentially takes three forms: lectures, seminars, and one to one project supervision. Lectures are the dry boring things that students sleep through and surviving/getting something out of them is worth an entire guide in itself. One to one Read more…
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How to survive a PhD viva: a terrible guide no one should follow…
I have at one time or another, been on every side of a PhD viva. In about 4 months time I’ll be in another one, watching one of my students hopefully produce a vigorous defence of his thesis. Which is good because I’ve read the thesis and it certainly needs Read more…
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How to reply to reviewers: a terrible guide that no one should follow…
Despite my prolific blog output, I managed to find time earlier this year to write a paper. It was a labour of love, passion and frustration at Word’s image handling system. As a new academic and as a proto-academic, I have been given lots of training on how to write papers. They Read more…
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How to cope with stress – a simple 5 step system
Everyone has bad weeks. Obviously I’d quite like it if I had no bad weeks and everything in my job went perfectly. But despite being made to watch it on an almost daily basis by my children, I do not live in a land of ponies and magical friendship. I live in Read more…
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How to prepare an academic poster: a terrible guide that no one should follow…
Academia thrives on posters. At school whenever I was asked to make a poster project I always wondered why, they just seem like busy work for kids given by teachers who had run out of ideas. But it turns out that at the age of 32 I am still making them on Read more…
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A step by step guide to failing with a 3D printer
This guide serves two purposes. Firstly, it’s for anyone who enjoys sarcasm, reading stories of despair, and watching a man loose a battle of wits with a machine. Secondly, anyone with an Ultimaker 2 printer might want to read this to know what not to do. Step 1 – Start a Read more…
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How to: use PiUi
Update: I checked (16-03-2016) and PiUi development appears to have stopped 3 years ago. I suggest trying to setup your own Apatche system instead. Last week I posted a vine video of one of the cool raspberry pi features I just got working for cBAM and a few people asked for Read more…