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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…