- “Slap your adviser (and I hope, s/he slaps you back).”
- “Teaching” at the university, or: I am neither a, nor your, private teacher
- A Critical Look at Scientific Writing Courses
- A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. Sleuths however …
- Allowing for excellence or enforcing sameness
- Another Comment on Oxford Union Society’s “Freedom of Speech and Right to Offend” Debate
- Apple’s Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy
- Are you happy with your life? And what are your skills?
- Arguing with the Status Quo
- Attributions
- Beauty and Thick Skin
- Bounce
- Burning Employees’ Creativity: Or, it’s whether communication has positive consequences … or not
- Career in Academia vs. Burn out in a Business Consultancy Job: Hey Academia, maybe you’re doing something wrong, too!
- Challenge to Improve
- Clear Communication in Engineering and Science (including the social sciences)
- Creating Serendipitous Organizational Creativity
- Creativity is a Social Business
- Criticism is not a personal attack
- Cybermobbing is mobbing, not cyber
- Dealing with Apple Keynote’s Backwards Compatibility — or lack thereof
- Dealing with Fansites
- Dealing with Hate Mails
- Dealing with hindsight-bias: Or, how to avoid people telling you that it wasn’t that hard to do once they hear the solution.
- Dealing with Negative Comments
- Dealing with Rejection
- Dealing With the Plagiarism Plague Among Students
- Differences in Discussions
- Digital Journal with Apple’s Keynote as New Year’s Resolution
- Digitally naming, shaming and jailing
- Disabled the Captcha check for Comments
- Disrespectful questions are the nature of the Internet
- Elance — Freelancer Site
- Essay Recommendation: “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- Evaluating Human-Computer-Interactions when Using Multiple Devices
- Even Without the Barrier, a Mountain is Still a Mountain
- Every laugh you make …
- Everyday (online) Sadism
- Feedback Filter
- Finally a(nother) paper published
- Giving Feedback: The Golden Rule
- Hierarchy of Agreement
- Honest Journalism
- How about a “Rehearse Slideshow” Mode with a Virtual Reality Audience?
- How are they using it?
- I do not like to imagine disasters, but I like (those I like) to survive them
- If you ask students to be critical …
- Ignoring Critics?
- Interesting (but sadly underdeveloped and underused) Add-On: OpenComment
- Interesting Discussion about Free Speech and Censorship at Universities
- Interesting Interview with ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Cartoonist Luz
- Interesting Movie Reviews
- Interpreting academic studies
- Is College/University Worth It?
- Is Mashup Art? And if yes, do I censor it?
- It’s not that life came with a handbook
- Joking about Religion
- Knight Forks
- Learning from Bad Practice
- Leaving your Comfort Zone
- Let the Bigots Speak Freely
- Listening to differening opinions
- Looking back at the postings of 2015
- Looking Back on 2013
- Making the best out of conferences
- Minimum Requirements to React to Comments
- Necrophilic Teaching
- Neonce – an interesting tool for problem-solving in groups
- Non-Stereotypical Life-Paths, Or: How to Avoid Pissing Contests You Probably Really Don’t Care About
- Not perfect? Try Again.
- Online Presentation [Broken English]: Scientific Writing
- Online Presentation [German]: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben
- Other Criteria for Good Discussions
- Paying for it (Open Access in Science)
- PhD work vs Project Work
- Questionable Views in Academia
- Reader Feedback
- Recommendation: Honest Trailers & CinemaSins
- Recommendation: How to Speak — Lecture Tips from Patrick Winston
- Research Ethics and Whistle-Blowing
- Respectful Critique
- Responsibility to New Academic Hires
- Science without Art is Bleak, Art without Science is Terrifying
- Science! Inspire the Public or Expose the Muppets?
- Science, Fraud, and the Flow of Data
- Scientific Community #1 – The Scientific Method is People
- Scientific Misconduct: Truth and Power (& Stupidity)
- Selection Processes
- Self-Defeating Self-Talk, or: The Enemy in Your Head, Where Your Friend Should be
- Self-Reflective Students
- Sharing an iPad or iPhone Screen when Using WebEx on the Mac
- Skeptical and Critical Thinking 101
- So, what is important to you?
- Some comments on the tension between creativity and commerce
- Some remarks on Student Project Reports
- Taking stock of oneself
- Thank you (you know who you are)
- The 7 Deadly Habits of Highly Destructive People
- The Court Jester
- The Images That Didn’t Make It
- The PhD’s New Clothes, or: Anonymous Information regarding Plagiarism
- The Power of Silence (and the little green (wo)man)
- The Power of the Field
- The Uses of Writing a Blog
- Thievery isn’t flattery
- Throwing the first stone …
- Tips for Doing Presentations with Apple’s Keynote: Templates
- Tips for Proofreaders and Authors From an Author’s Perspective
- Too much to read
- Too Personal Projects
- Turn your Home Art into an Exhibition Piece
- Two Quick Video Recommendations: Cultural Libertarian and Trigger Warnings
- Unintended Messages
- Using and abusing academic workshops
- Using HemingwayApp Offline
- Using the Computer’s Text-to-Speech Feature as Proofreading Support
- Venting Reviewer Comments
- Viewpoint Diversity (and creating T-Shirts)
- Wanting to appear competent vs. being competent
- What Critics are Good For
- What is good advisory of PhD students?
- What is good PhD advisory?
- What teaching should also be about
- What’s a Critic’s Opinion Worth?
- When geeks get some support
- When the ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ turns into an Angry Mob
- Who Determines What Is “Good” in a Discussion?
- Who is strong enough to kill his children?
- Why correcting student papers is a bad idea
- Why repeating something you’ve done brilliantly doesn’t deliver the same (brilliant) results
- Why Science Should Act as Reality Check (even for bogus ideas)
- Why should I care about #GamerGate — I’m not even interested in computer games?
- With self-reflection, take small doses only.
- Writing a Synopsis for a Bachelor, Master or PhD Thesis in Media and Computer Science
- Writing like a commie, or what the teacher wants to hear vs what you actually believe
- Writing Software Needs a “Highlight Fluffy” Option (some apps already have it)
- You show me yours, I’ll show you mine
