Kimberly Hirsh (Kimberly Hirsh)I’m making a few notes to myself here to document my process for keeping a public research notebook. They might be of interest to you, too. First, I’m talking here mostly about keeping up with the literature. There are (in my opinion obvious) ethical implications of actually sharing your data on...
Recent PhD graduate Lucy A. Taylor shares the advice she and her colleagues wish they had received.
Stuart Geiger (Twitter)Academics who need a personal website, check out my https://t.co/onrqJPt3Nq project, a ready-to-fork GitHub pages template supporting CV-style content. Difficulty is more than using Wordpress but lower than building your own site from scratch. Over 2,500 people have tried it out!
— Stuart Geiger (@staeiou) October 17, 2018
THE CAPS DID THAT (Twitter)I left academia for industry and all I could get was an entry level position at 13.50 an hour... which is twice what I made doing research and teaching a course
— not the abobinal snowman (@hugwins) June 3, 2018
Veronika Cheplygina (Veronikach.com)My material of choice became fabric. After some searching, I settled on this product, in particular the “vlaggendoek” or “flag sheet” variety. This material weights just 115 grams for 1m2, which is conveniently almost the same size as an A0 (841mm × 1189mm). Printing + delivery costs just over 20 euros, which is actually cheaper than an A0 paper poster with a plastic coating. That’s not all: apparently the material is fire retardant, because you never know when fire could break out at a conference. But the best thing of all? You can fold it and it still looks great when you unfold it!
Veronika Cheplygina (Veronika Cheplygina)How can you make your poster stand out at the poster session, if you only have a limited amount of time? There are many tips out there on how to design the poster and how to structure all the infor…