“Naively optimistic” – this was my opening to a blog post I wrote for Errant Science five and a half years ago, when Overleaf was approaching its fifth anniversary. Five years later, Overleaf is now ten, and after leading the team there for close to a decade I’ve recently moved Read more…
Over the last few weeks our weekly blog posts have covered all sorts of things, from lunch (very important) to software for thesis-writing. We also asked if anyone would like to write a guest post – please do get in touch if you’re interested!
It’s that time: you’re finally thinking about writing your thesis. Well you’ve probably been thinking about it since the second you began your thesis, but now you’re actually thinking about the physical action of writing it. How will it look? What chapters will I need? How the heck am I Read more…
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…
Last week I wrote (as I do every week) an article. The article was made up of ~600 words and quite a lot of grammar and punctuation. As was pointed out to me on Facebook, some of these words and grammar were not used correctly. Obviously this is the worst Read more…
The UK have had a couple of ‘mini heatwaves’ over the last few weeks. What this means in reality is that big yellow ball in the sky shows itself, we (typical Brits) go bananas and try to get outside at every available opportunity, and remember too late that the hot Read more…
Joe woke some indeterminate amount of time later feeling simultaneously freezing and in a terrific amount of pain. He tried to sit up with an excellent impression of an unfolding broken step ladder as he realised that various parts of him were now pretty well locked up. He eventually managed Read more…
Joe stood next to his bottle and for what seemed like the millionth time looked around the lab listlessly for some kind of purpose. Having now exhausted almost every sane option and one or two insane ones, no new ideas jumped out at Joe. He absentmindedly picked up his phone Read more…
Joe peered at his lab now only illuminated by the glow from the computer monitor still showing the message “Network connection missing” and counted slowly to 5. This was partially a technique for calming himself down to just a slight simmer of rage but also he thought that he’d wait Read more…
