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		<title>Data sharing in Science (the sad reality)</title>
		<link>http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/data-sharing-in-science-the-sad-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 05:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softmodeling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The push for open access publications should not deviate our attention from an even (IMHO) bigger problem: open science. We can easily skip paywalls by making the pdfs of all our publications available for free in our home page (and &#8230; <a href="http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/data-sharing-in-science-the-sad-reality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myresearchrants.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21148735&#038;post=402&#038;subd=myresearchrants&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny Transactions on Computer Science (TinyToCS)</title>
		<link>http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/tiny-transactions-on-computer-science-tinytocs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 22:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softmodeling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tiny Transactions on Computer Science (TinyToCS) is computer science research of 140 characters or less. As they say in their Call for Papers (they &#8220;publish&#8221; &#8220;volumes&#8221; of the Tiny Transactions) &#8220;is a forum for high-quality scholarly discourse that challenges researchers &#8230; <a href="http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/tiny-transactions-on-computer-science-tinytocs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myresearchrants.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21148735&#038;post=398&#038;subd=myresearchrants&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RR: How big your PhD contribution is really going to be &#8211; a reality check</title>
		<link>http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/rr-how-big-your-phd-contribution-is-really-going-to-be-a-reality-check/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softmodeling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re just starting your PhD you may still think your work is going to be revolutionary. Well, sorry to disappoing you but this is not going to happen (as all your more senior PhD students will quickly tell you). &#8230; <a href="http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/rr-how-big-your-phd-contribution-is-really-going-to-be-a-reality-check/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myresearchrants.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21148735&#038;post=394&#038;subd=myresearchrants&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bingo game to play during bad presentations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softmodeling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad Presentation Bingo is an effort by the Illinois Science Council to encourage scientists to be considerate of their audiences (especially public audiences) by paying attention to their presentation’s style and format as much as to its content. Really worth &#8230; <a href="http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/bingo-game-to-play-during-bad-presentations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myresearchrants.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21148735&#038;post=389&#038;subd=myresearchrants&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not a good reviewer</title>
		<link>http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/im-not-a-good-reviewer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softmodeling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;m coming out of the closet: I declare myself a bad reviewer. To me, peer-reviewing a journal or conference paper implies two main tasks: Deciding whether the paper should be accepted for publication Providing constructive feedback to the authors &#8230; <a href="http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/im-not-a-good-reviewer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myresearchrants.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21148735&#038;post=386&#038;subd=myresearchrants&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No such thing as bureaucracy-free coffee</title>
		<link>http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/no-such-thing-as-bureaucracy-free-coffee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softmodeling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep inside, I&#8217;m a nice guy so when I saw our last full team meeting was going to be a long one I decided to buy some coffee and pastries for the team. In fact, my hidden goal was to &#8230; <a href="http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/no-such-thing-as-bureaucracy-free-coffee/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myresearchrants.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21148735&#038;post=383&#038;subd=myresearchrants&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I would pay to work in this school of engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And I bet you would pay too!. Welcome to the School of Engineering of the Monsters University (if interested, it includes a degree in Computer Science and you can also check the current faculty members to explore possible research collaborations) &#8230; <a href="http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/i-would-pay-to-work-in-this-school-of-engineering/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myresearchrants.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21148735&#038;post=379&#038;subd=myresearchrants&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You know you are becoming a team leader when (I)</title>
		<link>http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/you-know-you-are-becoming-a-team-leader-when-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You stop checking DBLP to see the number of publications you have and instead start counting the number of publications where one of the authors indicates your team as affiliation. If you liked this post, you should also follow my &#8230; <a href="http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/you-know-you-are-becoming-a-team-leader-when-i/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myresearchrants.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21148735&#038;post=375&#038;subd=myresearchrants&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wasted_hours_in_paperwok= log(project_money)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My team participates in all kinds of projects (large and small, at the european, national and regional level). All of them require me to spend countless hours in stupid paperwork (you know how this works, my team gets to do &#8230; <a href="http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/wasted_hours_in_paperwok-logproject_money/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myresearchrants.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21148735&#038;post=368&#038;subd=myresearchrants&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paper submission: the earlier, the better?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time my group submits the papers with the deadline looming. I continuously fight with my teammates to avoid this (even threatening them by saying that I won&#8217;t be able to do any work on the paper during &#8230; <a href="http://myresearchrants.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/paper-submission-the-earlier-the-better/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myresearchrants.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21148735&#038;post=362&#038;subd=myresearchrants&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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