Random thoughts about conducting scientific research, supervising students and «toys» that make creative activities even funnier…
To Jean Pouliot (1958-2015) Berkeley 1985 (left) and more recently (right) The title of this post is from a wonderful and powerful poem by Walt
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ― Oscar Wilde In walking
In a previous blog post, I suggested to my younger colleagues that while they should not care so much about the impact factor of the
Mon coeur saigne. Mes pensés sont avec vous. Cette image, qui circule sur Facebook, est inspirante dans la situation actuelle.
A new search engine, Semantic Scholar, is being proposed to the scientific community and it uses artificial intelligence. Right now it is limited to computer
This is my first ever sabbatical (allowed once every 7 years at my university) and since taking my position in 2000 is has been the longest stretch I have ever been at one place. So all in all, this change of environment will, I expect, be energizing!
Well for those of us who have very large PDF libraries, version 3.3.0 of Papers is bringing back WiFi Sync across devices. Let’s see how
There is Nothing so Unequal as the Equal Treatment of Unequals – Leadership and the One Minute Manager If someone would have told me 15 years
Recently changed my early 2012 15″ MacBook Pro Retina (quad core i7, 16Gb) for the new 13″ Pro Retina (dual core i7, 16Gb). I passed
Made my first flight I was 9 years old. I remember vividly that you could ask and go talk with the pilot in the cabin.
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first base. – Frederick B. Wilcox Coming back from attending a
It is now well established that multitasking is impacting productivity significantly. If you do a quick Google search with the terms “multitasking and productivity”, you
My very first manuscript published in Physical Review Letters (major physics journal!) came about by drawing figures on piece of papers (basically mocked-up figures) with
Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal – The Washington Post.
Ruminating... 