Doing Science – Page 34 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Question: Interested in a website dealing with organizing creativity specifically for science?

2013-11-23

I'm thinking on doing a website about working in science. Signal your interest by voting. Note: Voting is done -- the "yes" have it.
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Scientific Community #4 — Concluding Remarks

2013-11-23

Summary and three crucial issues when it comes to (correctly) seeing science as social endeavor.
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Scientific Community #3 — Analyzing the Literature to find out more about the Community

2013-11-22

If you want to get into a scientific community without having a supervisor or colleague helping you along, you're pretty much screwed. But there are some things you can do.
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Scientific Community #2 — Getting Into the Community the Right Way

2013-11-21

Tips on getting into the scientific community include some things about yourself, your presentation, supervisors, conferences and more.
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Scientific Community #1 – The Scientific Method is People

2013-11-20

Science is people, not a method. Some needed information for young scientists, including emotions and the benefits that, after a while, scientists die.
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Practitioner Talk in an Academic Setting

2013-11-19

Listening to a person who left Academia to do more practical work showed me how narrow the Academic world-view is. Some notes of the talk.
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“Accidental” Discoveries, or rather: “Serendipitous Observations”

2013-11-18

Looking at a video about "accidental" discoveries and why "serendipitous observations" would be a better term. Also: Squelchers.
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Rethinking Presentation Software (non-Prezi Style)

2013-11-17

Presentations have a very long tradition (see image left), but there is little creativity. And I don't mean using effects where you need barf bags. So, how about thinking of doing things differently?
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The 7 Deadly Habits of Highly Destructive People

2013-11-13

There's this book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", well, here is the dark side. What people can do to make your work life really sucky.
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Biases in Reporting Research: Or, how you can screw 1/3 of the affected population

2013-11-11

A look at the science news cycle in the context of the Academic Impostor syndrome (based on a tweet I stumbled upon, see left). Nice how you can neglect a large part of the population in public discussion.
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A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.