Random thoughts about conducting scientific research, supervising students and «toys» that make creative activities even funnier…
Top educator and COMP gold medal winner Prof. Jerry Battista from Western Ontario has decided to make available materials that he is using in his
In case you’ve missed this one, an interesting analysis was recently published in Nature on citations of manuscripts published in predatory journal. If you contrast
A rare post in French on a conference I gave last year on the status of author taken by students, mainly in the context of
[This post was originally published over 6 years ago. It is still extremely relevant!] Recently saw a comment by a student about not being advised
GTD methodology call of frequent review of projects and associated task lists. In fact, the whole system crumbles if this critical operation is not performed
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and
One of the great thing I liked about Apple lighting port (when it came out) was the versatility and reversibility of the connector. As I
***UPDATE: URL to MedScint website corrected François Therriault-Proulx, a former PhD student of mine, decided sometimes ago that he would transformed a technology he co-developped
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer
About time, a must read: It’s time to talk about ditching statistical significance
This is the second (and last) installment in dealing with e-mails. It assumes that you have read the first one, basic ethos. If you have
E-mail is at the same time an efficient communication tool and a big productivity disruption that can occupy up to 23% of your daily working
I do not know about you, but I am getting tired and even a bit frustrated by all the e-mails asking me to come to
The cemeteries are filled with people who thought the world couldn’t get along without them — Multiple sources, original author unclear As you start the
I started this blog in April 2012, almost 7 years ago. During that time there were almost 214 000 views from visitors coming from 196
