Learning to do Science – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Making managing different student projects less sucky (esp. sending mails)

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 3 minutes

If you have many student projects with repeating tasks, e.g., frequently sending mails to a small number of students, it pays to invest some time into organizing these projects.
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Die Zukunft deiner Forschung — Wie organisiert man eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit?

2021-04-22 | Reading time: Less than a minute

A chapter I once wrote for a student conference on how to organize a scientific work. It's in German (unfortunately), but still, might be useful for some.
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Great Sources on Data Visualization (with R)

2021-02-23 | Reading time: 1 minute

It's impressive what you can do with the right tools, well, with R. ;-)
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Example Writing Workflow (Academic Articles)

2021-01-30 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Writing is hard — it might be a bit easier with Scrivener, Overleaf, a printer, and a whiteboard.
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Getting yourself an Education

2021-01-30 | Reading time: 7 minutes

Looking at the schools today, this excerpt from «Have Space Suit will Travel» by Robert A. Heinlein is still very relevant. Not only due to Covid19-induced online «learning.»
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«To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.»

2021-01-24 | Reading time: 3 minutes

That's actually one advantage of cancel culture and retraction of papers due to public pressure — you find interesting material to read.
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Recommendation: No Safe Spaces

2021-01-24 | Reading time: 1 minute

Interesting documentary about the state of free speech in the USA.
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Reading Setup Update

2020-12-09 | Reading time: 3 minutes

An update on my reading setup, due to a question of what I would suggest.
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Let’s Upgrade to a prior, better version of DEVONthink for Big Sur

2020-11-23 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Upgraded my Mojave Mac to Big Sur ... and still using DEVONthink Pro Office 2.11.3.
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Screw Optimists and Pessimists, be a Possibilist

2020-11-23 | Reading time: 3 minutes

An interesting quotation from Hans Rosling's "Factufulness".
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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.