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Save your work – give software engineers a career track | News | Times Higher Education edit / delete

Indeed.

to academia career education ... on 01 September 2013

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong edit / delete

(1) is "it's not written in TeX".

to academia maths peer-review publishing ... on 02 August 2013

The HoTT book « Mathematics and Computation edit / delete

Evangelising the use of proper version control for collaborative writing. (Which seems kind of obvious to me, but it's surprisingly hard to persuade people about.)

to academia git scm tex writing ... on 11 July 2013

Failure is a Four-Letter Word - Software Engineering Chair (Prof. Zeller) - Saarland University edit / delete

How to lie with software engineering metrics (and, in a few cases, just outright lie).

to academia ag0803 amusements research statistics ... on 02 April 2013

Copy, Shake, and Paste: A good definition of plagiarism edit / delete

As it says. One to add to the 0700 lecture (and project intros). The blog as a whole is quite interesting.

to academia ag0700 plagiarism writing ... on 24 March 2013

Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis edit / delete

Exactly what it says on the tin. Brilliant (and quite interesting).

to academia journal publishing research ... on 16 November 2012

Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers - Metadata edit / delete

to academia publishing research ... on 12 November 2012

Structured Procrastination edit / delete

A very powerful technique.

to academia amusements procrastination ... on 27 May 2012

LUCS - How to Get EPSRC Funding edit / delete

Useful reference, although it's a bit old.

to academia epsrc funding ... on 12 November 2010

Welcome to DiGRA — Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) edit / delete

Looks worth investigating.

to academia games research ... on 30 October 2010