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	<title>Survival Blog for Scientists</title>
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	<description>Getting around in the scientific world...</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t *You* organize a conference?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/why-dont-you-organize-a-conference_106</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ad lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tips for senior scientists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A scientist should behave as a good citizen in the scientific community. You cannot  expect that other colleagues perform all the unpleasant jobs and that you can spent all your time on science.  I am referring to low-reward activities like reviewing papers, reviewing grant proposals, sitting on review panels, being an editor of a scientific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving your new results away too soon</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/giving-your-new-results-away-too-soon_103</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/giving-your-new-results-away-too-soon_103#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ad lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tips for junior scientists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A scientific paper has a dull structure: Title, List of Authors, Abstract, Introduction, Results,  Conclusions,  References  are the headings of sections to be found in many papers. However exciting and new the results of your paper are, do not experiment by inventing a new, original structure that will surprise and confuse your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explaining your PhD</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/explaining-your-phd_104</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramy El-Dardiry</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Research and education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In French, explaining science to a broad general audience is called “vulgariser”. To me, this French verb has a very negative connotation. The word implies popularizing science is something dirty. Surely something that should be avoided at all times. If a scientist wants to stay clean, he’d better stay away from translating his abstract ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immoral funding rates</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/immoral-funding-rates_99</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/immoral-funding-rates_99#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ad lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tips for junior scientists]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tips for senior scientists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I still remember those days that my thesis supervisor  didn&#8217;t have to justify why he wanted to buy a particular, expensive, piece of equipment. When I became a group leader those golden days were already gone forever.
Nowadays scientists fight for research money in fierce competitions. I certainly agree that some competition is healthy. Although, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving thanks to science</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/surviving-thanks-to-science_101</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/surviving-thanks-to-science_101#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramy El-Dardiry</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Research and education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the twentieth century, Dutch science was without doubt world-class. The first Nobel Prize for chemistry went to the Dutchman Van ‘t Hoff. The first three recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics were either Dutch (Zeeman and Lorentz) or were partly educated in the Netherlands (Röntgen).  All of them were born [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survival Guide gets already second edition</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/survival-guide-gets-already-second-edition_100</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/survival-guide-gets-already-second-edition_100#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ad lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Presentations quality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Speaking  in public]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am happy that my book Survival Guide for Scientists, published about a month ago, is selling  very well. Today I went through the final proofs of the  second edition. Corrections were only minor (some inconsistencies in italic versus roman fonts will be corrected). Up to now the marketing has only been done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recognition matters</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/phd_life/recognition-matters_98</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/phd_life/recognition-matters_98#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few month ago, I met a Professor who is now a very successful Biomedical physicist. I knew him before from his very nice articles, which he had published in high-impact journals during his PhD research. Those articles included very fundamental theoretical results and at that time very progressive experiments on deep physics. For reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you also a speaker who loves to drown his audience?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/speaking-in-public/are-you-also-a-speaker-who-loves-to-drown-his-audience_94</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/speaking-in-public/are-you-also-a-speaker-who-loves-to-drown-his-audience_94#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ad lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Speaking  in public]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tips for senior scientists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After many years of experience I come to the following conclusion: Giving a good talk for  a lay audience  is extremely difficult and not very rewarding.  Reading this statement will upset a number of people. So I have to do some explaining.
Drowning them
I have seen so many talks delivered by guys (yes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pros and cons of a fire-starter</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/pros-and-cons-of-a-fire-starter_92</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/pros-and-cons-of-a-fire-starter_92#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Research and education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Entrepreneurship is a personal character that is mostly used for businessmen, but can also be found in scientists. In fact, as creativity is an essential ingredient for a successful scientific career, I may even claim that there sit more entrepreneurs in a research institute than a company, but I do not insist.
Some business-psychologists describe entrepreneurs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do we really need to have big ego’s?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/do-we-really-need-to-have-big-ego%e2%80%99s_91</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/do-we-really-need-to-have-big-ego%e2%80%99s_91#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramy El-Dardiry</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My first university course was in elementary calculus. The course itself was foremost a repetition of what we had already learned in secondary school and was therefore in itself not very interesting. However, those first days did learn me a lot about physicists. I was surrounded by nerds, geeks, whizzkids. Badly shaved guys, elegantly dressed [...]]]></description>
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