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How to go on sabbatical: best auto-reply ever
This is a real auto-reply I received in response to an email I sent a colleague this morning: I will be on sabbatical from 1 January through 1 July 2014.
Last updated on 27 Sep 2023
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UPDATE ON LAURANCE ET AL.'S “PREDICTING PUBLICATION SUCCESS” IS FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED (MAYBE).
Diego (above) still has not published any papers, so he is still doomed professionally. Last year Bill Laurance and colleagues published an article in Bioscience whose take home message was that you could predict the longish-term publication success of scientists by simply looking at their pre-PhD publication record.
Last updated on 27 Sep 2023
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2014 TCD Field Research Grants * Deadline March 10, 2014*
2014 TCD Field Research Grants * Deadline March 10, 2014* TCD Field Research Grants support field research addressing the issues of biodiversity conservation, sustainable resource use, and human well-being in
Last updated on 27 Sep 2023
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unclog your inbox: how students can submit assignments directly to a course @dropbox folder with @IFTTT
I hate our university’s course management system and have migrated to worpdress for courses. It does have one or two handy features, however, one of which is that students can upload assignments to it directly so you no longer have to collect them in class or ask they be submitted via email.
Last updated on 27 Sep 2023
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Redesigning my Lab Webpage
A few months ago I decided to revamp my lab’s webpage and moved to Wordpress as the content management system. To get started I chose the Oxygen theme from Alien WP - for a free theme it’s quite functional and stylish out of the box, Alien WP has great customer support, and it’s an easy theme with which to learn the basics of WP.
Last updated on 27 Sep 2023
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Converting to Wordpress for Course Management
For a number of reasons not worth going into I dislike using our university course management system (CMS). I therefore decided to follow the suggestions in this great post by Ryan Cordell from the Chronicle’s awesome ProfHacker blog and start using Wordpress as a CMS.
Last updated on 27 Sep 2023
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Recent paper: seed dispersal & genetic erosion in Amazonian forest fragments
[caption id=“attachment_468” align=“aligncenter” width=“405”] Heliconia acuminata is pollinated by Phaethornis hummingbirds.[/caption] Marina Côrtes did a supeb PhD in which she investigated the processes influencing spatial genetic structure in populations of Heliconia acuminata at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project in Manaus (her advisor was my friend and collaborator Dr.
Last updated on 27 Sep 2023
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Yes, there really is a Dr. Taco Monster.
Some scientists have the most awesome names ever. Check it out.
Last updated on 27 Sep 2023
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#ProTips for scientists interacting with journalists (updated)
Last week as part of UF’s Science Communications Academy we met with Steve Orlando, Director of UF Media Relations. He gave some great tips for interacting with journalists, which I post here for my fellow students in the course.
Last updated on 27 Sep 2023
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Estudantes identificam aves em obras do Brasileiro Jean-Théodore Descourtilz (1796-1855)
GAINESVILLE, Florida - Arte e ciência nem sempre caminham juntas, mas um projeto novo da Universidade da Florida (UF) desafia esta afirmação. Estudantes do Instituto de Ciências Agrícolas e da Vida (IFAS) recentemente trabalharam em conjunto com o Museu de Arte Samuel P.
Last updated on 27 Sep 2023
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