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ErrantWritings

Calling for a Friday e-mail amnesty

“Dear Applicant” or “Dear Author” is at any stage of your career a terrifying thing to see in your email account. Just those words instil near paralysing fear that could only be worse if the opening lines also included a clown face and a balloon.

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 5 years29 November 2017 ago
ErrantWritings

Making data play nicely with others

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been helping my boss out with a review paper. Mercifully I’m not actually writing much of it, I’m mostly just helping out around the edges by sorting out references and digging through them for useful metrics by which we can compare techniques. This has led Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 7 years27 January 2016 ago
ErrantWritings

A cynics guide to academic papers

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 7 years11 November 2015 ago
ErrantWritings

How to write papers: part 1 – productive procrastination

So you’ve just done some amazing research that is going to change the landscape of your particular field. What you need to do now is publish a paper and share this with the world. You could share it other ways e.g. sky writing or on the side of a blimp; Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 8 years5 August 2015 ago
ErrantWritings

You can haz PDF

Oh, how I wish life in science was simple… Actually, scratch that – I love complicated, messy and sometimes explode-y science. Oh, how I wish publishing in science was simple! Last week you may remember that I wrote about my horror at finding out that my paper had a 2 year Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 9 years2 July 2014 ago
ErrantWritings

No PDF for you

About 3 months ago, I had a paper published – there was much rejoicing. Since then I have been planning on doing a big ‘hey, look at my paper’ blog post. I even went so far as to write some other posts that would lay the ground work and background so it Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 9 years25 June 2014 ago
ErrantWritings

Faceplaming my way though paper publishing

During the first year of my PhD, I noted a problem with our equipment. For some unknown reason, the sensor component was taking 1+ hours to stabilise on a single value when the machine was first set up. Given that I was just starting out, the idea of adding an Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 9 years25 September 2013 ago
Not a Hedgehog
ErrantWritings

Artistically linked research

Last week I read an excellent blog post by Johanna Kieniewicz on PLOS.org about the combination of art and science. The post details why blending art and science is important and how it can be highly productive for both groups. I am not very artistic (as my previous drawings demonstrate) but Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 10 years28 November 2012 ago
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