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Death by research
And this in the name of research — seriously, what’s wrong with these kids? This is the story: technology student builds concrete canoe, goes out to test in dangerous river,… »
Field notes on epicretold
Good news is, this need not ‘work’ to make this work; I need not have a 1,000 followers hanging on to my every tweet (though that would be nice). As someone said to me the other day, the pleasure is in the process… The 5 Ws, H of an attempt at tweeting the… »
Dr Sprint
PhD by publication, I fear, kills the romance of research. The destination is too near, the path too flat and straight to produce anything but ‘normal science’. This is a collation of short-term efforts, a series of sprints — which, though a valid demonstration of academic sportsmanship, invovles a different kind of… »
Why do research?
Thirty-two research staff crowded around a conference table late one afternoon to apply their combined intellectual might to a foundational question: why do we undertake research? Do we do it for others? Or do we do it for… »
Ask not…
One question you must NOT ask someone writing up a thesis, “So when do you think you will finish?” That is only slightly better than… »
Re-search? Pardon my French
I have been a full-time researcher for nearly three years now, but for the life of me, I still can’t figure out why we call research research. I mean, why research Why not… »