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How Computers help Biologists crack Life’s secrets
Computers are uniquely qualified to handle massive data sets since they can simultaneously keep track of all the important conditions necessary for the analysis. Though they could reflect human errors they’re programmed with, computers can deal with large amounts of … Continue reading
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Search Engines for Academic Research
Back in 2010, we shared with you 100 awesome search engines and research resources in our post: 100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars. It’s been an incredible resource, but now, it’s time for an update. Some services have moved … Continue reading
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Transnational Networks of Radical Labour Research
During the last three or four decades labour, union, research and advocacy networks have interacted with networks of anti-capitalist or alter-globalist social justice activists. These interactions have enabled the (self-)organisation of working people across production networks linking the Global North … Continue reading
Studying and Researching with Social Media
Wondering what your lecturers are looking for in a blog post? Asking yourself how that’s different from writing an essay (or a wiki page)? Unsure if Twitter really can be used to build your online profile as a researcher? If … Continue reading
Characterizing Interdisciplinarity of Researchers and Research Topics Using Web Search Engines
Researchers’ networks have been subject to active modeling and analysis. Earlier literature mostly focused on citation or co-authorship networks reconstructed from annotated scientific publication databases, which have several limitations. Recently, general-purpose web search engines have also been utilized to collect … Continue reading
Reasons to Blog your Research
It helps you become more clear about your ideas. It gives you practice at presenting your ideas for a non-specialist audience. It increases your visibility within academia. It increases your visibility outside academia and makes it much easier for journalists, … Continue reading
MOOC Research Initiative
The dramatic increase in online education, particularly Massive Open Online Courses MOOCs, presents researchers, academics, administrators, learners, and policy makers with a range of questions as to the effectiveness of this format of teaching and learning. To date, the impact … Continue reading
Crowdsourcing reveals life-saving potential in global health research
Technology is allowing partners who previously worked independently to collaborate to combat neglected diseases. A growing trend in collaborative health research is creating potentially life-saving global partnerships between pharmaceutical companies, academic researchers, disease advocates and even the general public, who … Continue reading
Research Paper 2.0
Wikis are a great tool for student projects. Teachers often think of them when they want students to do something collaborative, but, wikis are also a great tool for individual work; particularly for research papers. Working in a wiki makes … Continue reading
Blogging your research is not a recipe for disaster
The physicist’s implication that scientists who blog about their research are trying to circumvent peer review is unfair. If we agree that science writing is valuable to society, scientists should share the same responsibility as journalists to provide comment and … Continue reading
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