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	<title>Survival Blog for Scientists</title>
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	<description>Getting around in the scientific world...</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mouse on glass surface does not work</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/conferences/mouse-on-glass-surface-does-not-work_1694</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/conferences/mouse-on-glass-surface-does-not-work_1694#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[A week ago I went to an international conference where I had to give a presentation. I was confronted with an unpleasant surprise when I wanted to deliver my presentation.
Glass surface
The conference was held in an expensive hotel in Majorca (Spain). The rooms had a fast Internet connection. Only when I checked out I discovered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting up a research group: the first year</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/starting-up-a-research-group-the-first-year_1365</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/starting-up-a-research-group-the-first-year_1365#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Otto Muskens</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[grant proposal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scientific community]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Some time ago I described my first steps in setting up a research group at a UK university. After one year it is time to evaluate some of the developments made so far. In general, I am quite happy with the progress. Certainly it has not been a very high-flying year scientifically. However, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five-million dollar question</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/five-million-dollar-question_1286</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/five-million-dollar-question_1286#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tips for junior scientists]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[principal investigator]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The career path in the academic world is tough. After a demanding undergraduate period, you will enter graduate school and another period of at least four years of hard work lies ahead. After acquiring your PhD you will have to work as a postdoc for a number of years.
In all those years other people tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much time to spend on lecturing?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/how-much-time-to-spend-on-lecturing_1272</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/how-much-time-to-spend-on-lecturing_1272#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klaas Wynne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are an academic in a university, you almost certainly have to do a fair bit of teaching. So I thought it might be appropriate to give you a flavour of what that means in practice (just in case you were considering an academic career yourself).]]></description>
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		<title>How to justify text with MS Word</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/technical-word/how-to-justify-text-with-ms-word_1221</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/technical-word/how-to-justify-text-with-ms-word_1221#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Technical (ms word, tex)]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[MS Word]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[text formatting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Depending on your discipline you write your scientific papers with either MS Word or you prepare them with a more professional text formatter like LaTeX.
Besides scientific papers scientist produce all kinds of other documents. I often notice that those MS-Word prepared documents have an ugly ragged right side, or have a repugnant flood of white [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critical article on the H-Index</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/critical-article-in-the-h-index_1231</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/critical-article-in-the-h-index_1231#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[High-impact journals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[h-index]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The H-Index is ruling science these days.
Recently an interesting article appeared in EuroPhysics News. I think this paper is of interest to all scientists, and not only to physicists:
Europhysics News Vol. 40, No. 5, 2009, pp. 26-29
DOI: 10.1051/epn/2009704

Bibliometric evaluation of individual researchers: not even right&#8230; not even wrong!
Franck Laloë[1] and Remy Mosseri[2]
[1]  Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop color #666</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/technical-word/stop-color-666_1201</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/technical-word/stop-color-666_1201#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Presentations quality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technical (ms word, tex)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bad contrast]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[web development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I discovered something a few days ago that made me ask the question: Am I mad, or are all web designers out of their minds? The sun was shining in my office and I just could not read the information on the web site of a major multinational company.
In my book I spent tens of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are your error bars?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/where-are-your-error-bars_1164</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/where-are-your-error-bars_1164#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[climate model]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[error bars]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>

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

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

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Experimental observations always are coming with uncertainties. Any measurement is an estimate of the real value, if indeed such an objective value exist.
The uncertainty in the magnitude of a measured quantity is more important as the value itself. Many readers will find this remark alarming. The determination of the “error bars” is considered a dull, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social responsibility of scientists</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/social-responsibility-of-scientists_1167</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/social-responsibility-of-scientists_1167#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Scientific community]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is not about building the atomic bomb or chemical weapons. It is about being sensitive to a basic and yet very important ethical issue in producing and publishing science: Honesty. Publishing in science is based upon trust. No review mechanism, no matter how sophisticated its design is, can overcome systematic fraud when it is practiced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social networking in science</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/social-networking-in-science_1151</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/social-networking-in-science_1151#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Otto Muskens</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Social networks are everywhere. Personally I like Facebook to keep track of old friends and add new ones. These friends are mostly of nonscientific background. Until recently I had never realized the importance of social networks in science. When you do your PhD and perhaps some postdoc projects here and there, it is hard to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editing Wikipedia</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/web_20/editing-wikipedia_1146</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/web_20/editing-wikipedia_1146#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacopo Bertolotti</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

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

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays Wikipedia is commonly used by scientists at every possible level to make quick and dirty check on the most various facts. It might be the exact form of a mathematical formula, the definition of some quantity or even the birthdate of some famous collegue. For simple facts we can say that Wikipedia entries are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can we refer to Wikipedia articles in a scientific paper?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/can-we-refer-to-wikipedia-articles-in-a-scientific-paper_1116</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/can-we-refer-to-wikipedia-articles-in-a-scientific-paper_1116#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think Wikipedia articles should never be allowed as references in the primary scientific literature.
Generation gap
The young generation is on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The older generation, if participating in a social network, will join the more sober-headed  LinkedIn. Young people even leave a virtual social network if they discover that too many members are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publishing a comment on a paper</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/publishing-a-comment-on-a-paper_1099</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/publishing-a-comment-on-a-paper_1099#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

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

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

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		<category><![CDATA[priority claim]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1099</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Successful scientists are driven by curiosity and by ego. Lay people find it disappointing when told that egos of individual scientists play a  crucial role in the progress of science. But the same people complain that their country has produced too few Nobel prize winners.
First discovery claims and disputes have always been part of science, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elsevier is going the wrong way</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/elsevier-is-going-the-wrong-way_1003</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/elsevier-is-going-the-wrong-way_1003#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=1003</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Summary
Reed-Elsevier’s daughter Elsevier has introduced as an experiment a new way of publishing science. The &#8220;paper&#8221; is now basically a website, in which the idea of a linear text is abandoned. The web interface implements access to text fragments, graphs, supplementary material, interview with an author, through hyperlinked tabs and mundane hyperlinks. In my opinion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niceness is inherent to being a good scientist</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/conferences/niceness-is-inherent-to-being-a-good-scientist_994</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/conferences/niceness-is-inherent-to-being-a-good-scientist_994#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klaas Wynne</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[manners]]></category>

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

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=994</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though a scientists needs to be rude, they also need to be nice. Science is a social enterprise and making friends is key to your career.]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing my slides</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/presentations_quality/sharing-my-slides_921</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/presentations_quality/sharing-my-slides_921#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Presentations quality]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[useful software]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Google Docs]]></category>

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract
In this post I have tested several solutions for slide sharing. I found the free product of SlideBoom to be superior.
Introduction
Scientific presentations are nowadays delivered in a form where the focus is on the presentation of slides. Old-fashioned people claim  - and complain - that a presentation with blackboard and chalk is a much better form of communication. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last-minute preparations for a presentation</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/last-minute-preparations-for-a-presentation_810</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/last-minute-preparations-for-a-presentation_810#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[last minute]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an ideal world scientists prepare their conference talk way ahead of time. In a realistic world they prepare their talk one or two days before they get on the plane. Or they do it on the plane. In earlier days,  when a presentation was done with the help of overhead projectors, transparencies that were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The not-so-good student</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/the-not-so-good-student_787</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/the-not-so-good-student_787#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacopo Bertolotti</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s take a (not so) hypothetical situation: assume you hold some kind of responsibility in your group. You might the the principal investigator, a researcher or even just an experienced post-doc; the important part is that you are somehow responsible (morally if not practically) for people hierarchically below you.
Let&#8217;s also assume that a new PhD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is the owner of scientific equipment?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/who-is-the-owner-of-scientific-equipment_753</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/who-is-the-owner-of-scientific-equipment_753#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 19:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[grant proposal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[group leader]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[principal investigator]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=753</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States is the premier example of a country where people move, and indeed move all over the country, if by doing so they get a better job. This professional mobility also applies to scientists. The country has invented a lot of mechanisms to ease these relocations.
Scientists move because they get a chance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing research proposals takes a lot of time</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/writing-research-proposals-takes-a-lot-of-time_750</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/writing-research-proposals-takes-a-lot-of-time_750#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 14:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klaas Wynne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tips for junior scientists]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[proposal writing]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing a proposal takes about six weeks of full-time work. Therefore, having one rejected is very significant time waster especially considering how much other work an academic has to do.]]></description>
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		<title>Rudeness is inherent to being a scientist</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/rudeness-is-inherent-to-being-a-scientist_746</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/rudeness-is-inherent-to-being-a-scientist_746#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 21:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klaas Wynne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being rude is part and parcel of being a scientist: it’s the only way you can get good discussion going after talks and this is how science progresses. Sometimes, though, it is hard to stop and you might end up arguing points of rigour and analysis with shopkeepers, teachers, parents, etc. I would argue that this is an necessary evil.]]></description>
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		<title>Example presentation: Surviving science</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/speaking-in-public/example-presentation-surviving-science_726</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/speaking-in-public/example-presentation-surviving-science_726#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Presentations quality]]></category>

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My example presentation
When discussing quality of presentations it helps a lot to discuss on the basis of example presentations. An example presentation is exactly what this post is about. Although I do not expect all the readers of this blog to be interested in the content of my talk, it would probably not harm to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Papers</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/technical-word/papers_722</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/technical-word/papers_722#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 09:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klaas Wynne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Presentations quality]]></category>

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

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		<category><![CDATA[useful software]]></category>

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=722</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Papers is a program for Mac OS X that allows you to collect scientific papers in the form of PDFs and search web repositories such as Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, PubMed, arXiv, JSTOR, Google scholar, and half a dozen other ones. It connects with EndNote or BibTeX so you can make bibliographies in MS Word and other word processing programs. Papers is so good that it made me switch from Windows to Mac just so I could use it.]]></description>
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		<title>Ideal vs. Real in your early career</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/phd_life/ideal-vs-real-in-your-early-career_677</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/phd_life/ideal-vs-real-in-your-early-career_677#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacopo Bertolotti</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an ideal world you finish high school having a very clear idea on what you want to do in your life. Then you opt for the very best university in that field, you graduate with very high grades and then you apply for a PhD in a fantastic group in a different university (in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which research group should a student join for his PhD?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/phd_life/which-research-group-should-a-student-join-for-his-phd_142</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/phd_life/which-research-group-should-a-student-join-for-his-phd_142#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Chinese students]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indian students]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I want to discuss some of the arguments that should play a role in the decision for students to send  out an application to a particular principal investigator in a particular institute in, very often, a foreign country.
Mobility
How mobile should a junior scientist be? I know some very successful scientists that went to high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who writes conference proceedings?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/conferences/who-writes-conference-proceedings_631</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/conferences/who-writes-conference-proceedings_631#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Otto Muskens</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=631</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a student in a traditional condensed matter physics group, I was taught for many years that for every conference you visit, you write an article for the proceedings. In my experience it was mainly seen as a gesture to the organizers and to the community. Several times I have responded to the request of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hire at a normalised 1 only</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/high-impact-journals/hire-at-a-normalised-1-only_621</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/high-impact-journals/hire-at-a-normalised-1-only_621#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klaas Wynne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[High-impact journals]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[h-index]]></category>

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

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[web of science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The normalised h-index is often seen as a simple single-number indicator of the quality of a researcher. A normalised h-index of 1 or above is the desired target. Does this make sense? Should hires be based on this?]]></description>
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		<title>Open discussion on science</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/opendiscussion_584</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/opendiscussion_584#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Open discussion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every scientific journal nowadays has a web-listing with a lot of useful links added to each abstract page, like citing and related articles. This features are among commodities for almost any web-publishing service.  Many news websites or other political or economic magazines allow, or even actively solicit, comments from their readers on their websites. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the reviewer of my grant proposal steal my ideas?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/will-te-reviewer-of-my-grant-steal-my-ideas_526</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/will-te-reviewer-of-my-grant-steal-my-ideas_526#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[grant proposal]]></category>

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I describe the dilemma that a principal investigator is confronted with when writing a grant proposal. The most successful way is also the most dangerous: describing in great detail   ]]></description>
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		<title>Starting up your own research group</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/starting-up-your-own-research-group_344</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/starting-up-your-own-research-group_344#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Otto Muskens</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>

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

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

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

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So here we are. Made it, got through the rat race, and found a safe haven in a Physics Department in a different country. They even offer state-of-the-art lab space and a small startup package (not sufficient to do anything substantial in photonics). So where to begin? Here is a brief description of my first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libraries: so 20th century</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/libraries-so-20th-century_375</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/libraries-so-20th-century_375#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klaas Wynne</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[web of science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to go to the library. Every couple of weeks or so I would go and check the journals, browse through their tables of content (TOCs), and flip through the pages. You would find odd articles in areas there weren’t quite your own. Slowly over time journals got bigger and were published more frequently. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to publish (a 4* post&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/where-to-publish-a-4-post_332</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/where-to-publish-a-4-post_332#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klaas Wynne</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Impact factor]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[RAE 2008]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, the UK had a giant review of all its university departments to arrive at rankings of departments by subject. This review was called the research assessment exercise (RAE) 2008 and my department (a physics department) didn’t do so well. Therefore, I had an extra good look at the RAE results. In January, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gebakken lucht (‘baked air’)</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/gebakken-lucht-%e2%80%98baked-air%e2%80%99_329</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/gebakken-lucht-%e2%80%98baked-air%e2%80%99_329#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klaas Wynne</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[press release]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=329</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the olden days, you had to do a lot of hard work, a lot of well thought-through research, in order to get a paper published, and that was it. In the not quite so olden days, just publishing your results was not enough: you also had to push your results to the general press. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Example of excellent presentation: Femius Koenderink</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/presentations_quality/example-of-excellent-presentation-femius-koenderink_311</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/presentations_quality/example-of-excellent-presentation-femius-koenderink_311#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my book Survival Guide for Scientists I give very precise advise on how, in my opinion, one can improve a scientific presentation. For educational purposes examples of really bad presentations and examples of really excellent presentations can be a very useful complimentary instruction material. When I asked some of my colleagues to allow me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software, like EndNote, for managing references is basically trash</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/software-like-endnote-for-managing-references-is-basically-trash_127</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/software-like-endnote-for-managing-references-is-basically-trash_127#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[citations]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every scientist has to cope with the problem of managing references (or citations, or notes, or literature, or whatever you call it.)  When writing his second paper he discovers that he has to type a number of references that he already typed in when preparing his first paper. This repetitive action calls for a repository [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Font geek</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/font-geek_191</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/font-geek_191#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Klaas Wynne</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[proposals writing fonts typefaces]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a freak or so some people think. My problem is: I like fonts, or typefaces as I prefer to call them. You probably wonder what the hell this has to do with science. Loads, I would argue.

My main source of research funding is the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). They accept research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Add-ons to the Science Survival Guide</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/useful_software/add-ons-to-the-science-survival-guide_199</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/useful_software/add-ons-to-the-science-survival-guide_199#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hyperlinks
In my opinion the  paper version of the Survival Guide for Scientists is very useful. But some information in the book the reader might also would like to have in digital form. In particular the book contains quite a number of useful hyperlinks. These links the reader would certainly like to be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Territorial disputes</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/territorial-disputes_166</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/territorial-disputes_166#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Finding a suitable research subject is about the most difficult task in the life of a researcher. And professional scientists are confronted with this task continuously all through their career.
You do not want to work on a field that has existed for a long time and where great scientists have made large contributions. The suicidal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ResearchGATE – the scientific network</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/researchgate-%e2%80%93-the-scientific-network_151</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/researchgate-%e2%80%93-the-scientific-network_151#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LifeScientist</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ResearchGATE works to the benefit of science
Every discovery or invention is based upon previous discoveries or inventions. This is what makes communication so essential for science. ResearchGATE empowers science by connecting the scientific community. Our platform enables researchers to communicate faster, better and easier. This will accelerate the distribution of knowledge – and create new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microphones, headers and contrast</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/efficient-email/microphones-headers-and-contrast_153</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/efficient-email/microphones-headers-and-contrast_153#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hylke</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Efficient email]]></category>

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

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=153</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I read the Survival guide with great pleasure and find it very useful and many times very amusing. A few comments/recommendations.
1. A useful addition to Presentation Guide 5.B.4 Sound. Although a speaker should face the audience as much as possible, we all know that for the majority of presentations, people are facing the screen at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orwell&#8217;s golden rules</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/orwells-golden-rules_148</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/orwells-golden-rules_148#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramy El-Dardiry</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/?p=148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[George Orwell (1903-1950) is a well-known British author. His fictional works include classics like Nineteen-Eighty Four and Animal Farm. Who is not familiar with the brilliant phrases “Big brother is watching you” and “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”? 
During his career Orwell showed special interest in the use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Types of presentations</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/presentations_quality/types-of-presentations_140</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/presentations_quality/types-of-presentations_140#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Presentations quality]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[In my book I classify scientific presentations according to the following scheme:
a)  speaker has no goal apparently
b)  speaker wants to prove he is smarter
than anybody in the audience
c)  speaker wants to give listeners a flavor
of new developments in his field
d)  speaker wants to teach some new
science to the listeners.
In the book I discuss talks of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PhD upgradation</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/phd_life/phd-upgradation_139</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/phd_life/phd-upgradation_139#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Fer every PhD student, there comes a moment that she is &#8220;upgraded.&#8221; At this moment, she turns from a premature trainee to a reliable coworker for her group or in her institute. In my opinion, this moment in not necessarily the promotion day. It can happen much earlier or much later dependent on the group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Readers&#8217; impression of the Survival Guide</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/readers-impression-of-the-survival-guide_136</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/readers-impression-of-the-survival-guide_136#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Ad Lagendijk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When talking about the Survival Guide, I have heard from several people some strikingly similar opinions. The first and the second sentences are usually something like &#8220;I agree with [the author: Ad]&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;I checked it for preparing one of my presentations. It was rather helfpul&#8230;&#8221;. By the third sentence, many readers whom I talked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is wrong with Google&#8217;s superior software for scientists?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/efficient-email/what-is-wrong-with-googles-superior-software-for-scientists_126</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/efficient-email/what-is-wrong-with-googles-superior-software-for-scientists_126#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Efficient email]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[useful software]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists&#8217;s desk
What general office software is useful for scientists? I come to the following enumeration: an email client, a calendar manager,  a browser,  a document formatter  (for non-scientific papers), a spreadsheet and presentation software. Microsoft sells software providing all these functionalities, and indeed many scientists use the Microsoft products Outlook, Internet Explorer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working on the same manuscript with several authors</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/working-on-the-same-manuscript-with-several-authors_119</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/working-on-the-same-manuscript-with-several-authors_119#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/working-on-the-same-manuscript-with-several-authors_119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A scientific manuscript will carry in the majority of cases more than one author. In this post I want to describe some of the technical problems associated with multiple authors.  So nothing here about the sociological and psychological aspects of dealing with co-authors. The book, by the way, discusses these aspects in some detail.
Writing after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to publish an article?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/where-to-publish-an-article_120</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/where-to-publish-an-article_120#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[High-impact journals]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Article submission]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Impact factor]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/where-to-publish-an-article_120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One writes a scientific article when she thinks she has enough new material in which a sizable fraction of the community is interested. In the time of writing, any article should be written with a lot of enthusiasm, as if it is going to appear on the cover of the most cited journal in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physical survival</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/phd_life/physical-survival_110</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/phd_life/physical-survival_110#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allard Mosk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

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

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[This blog focuses on professional and social survival. Here, I talk about physical survival: Get through your Ph.D., and hopefully also through the rest of your research career without damaging your health or even your life.

The theorists think they are not at risk and can stop reading here. The experimentalists think they&#8217;re careful enough and can stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blowing up your publication list and CV with trash</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/blowing-up-your-publication-list-and-cv-with-trash_116</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/blowing-up-your-publication-list-and-cv-with-trash_116#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[list of publications]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having been a member of so many committees in which the quality of various applicant-scientists were compared, I think, I know how to read a curriculum vitae and a publication list.
Please, do not try to magnify your publication list with trash as unrefereed papers and conference abstracts. It is pollution that will irritate the committee.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t you have more scientific collaborations?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/web_20/why-dont-you-have-more-scientific-collaborations_111</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/web_20/why-dont-you-have-more-scientific-collaborations_111#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tips for senior scientists]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/web_20/why-dont-you-have-more-scientific-collaborations_111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Progress of science is greatly enhanced when scientists collaborate intensively. The public at large believes so. To them the scientific community is one great society of people that are nice to each other, that are willing to help each other and are willing to share their insights. Collaborations will speed up the time it takes [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/why-dont-you-organize-a-conference_106#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>

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

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/why-dont-you-organize-a-conference_106</guid>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/giving-your-new-results-away-too-soon_103</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/explaining-your-phd_104#comments</comments>
		<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>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/immoral-funding-rates_99</guid>
		<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>

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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>
		
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		<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>
		
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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>

		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Research and education]]></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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		<title>Feedback when speaker is big shot</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/speaking-in-public/feedback-when-speaker-is-big-shot_86</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/speaking-in-public/feedback-when-speaker-is-big-shot_86#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Presentations quality]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[PowerPoint does not help
I have seen quite some historical developments with respect to visible aids used to clarify oral scientific presentations. I have seen talks illustrated with, slides being projected through a slide projector, transparencies made visible with an overhead projector, and  - now - digital slides that come to the audience through a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no science to Web 2.0 yet</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/scientists-blogging-and-posting-under-pseudonym_85</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/scientists-blogging-and-posting-under-pseudonym_85#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A number of bloggers blog under pseudonym. Unfortunately these writers refer to themselves as anonymous bloggers. Writing under pseudonym means you use a fictitious name, a name different from your own, whereas  corresponding anonymously means you use no name at all. On many Internet discussion forums users register under pseudonyms. Their real identity might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists publicly complaining about lack of recognition</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_sceniors/scientists-publicly-complaining-about-lack-of-recognition_82</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_sceniors/scientists-publicly-complaining-about-lack-of-recognition_82#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 11:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tips for senior scientists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I very much like the following quote from Groucho Marx: 


I don&#8217;t care to belong to a club that
accepts people like me as members
Recognition
Many professional societies like to acknowledge members that are exceptionally  good at their profession. If in addition the activities of these specialists  are useful and visible to a broader public, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do you mean the good research?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/what-do-you-mean-the-good-research_79</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/what-do-you-mean-the-good-research_79#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 15:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mohammad</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[High Tech Research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Young researchers always are worried about their career and this makes them mostly confuse in their research field. There are bunch of stuff that they should take care of them, publication, new finding, skill, being update, searching next job, getting match with new team and even new research field or culture, etc. If you look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help young researchers with easy grants</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/help-young-researchers-with-easy-grants_78</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/help-young-researchers-with-easy-grants_78#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 10:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post in Science Careers Blog Jim Austin argued that young researchers should get easier funding with science supporting agencies. That would be the best way to get them into the system.
I strongly object and put a reaction there, that I hereby reproduce:
This would be age discrimination. I agree that there is problem, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with companies</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/dealing-with-companies_76</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/tips_for_juniors/dealing-with-companies_76#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 09:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tips for junior scientists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When a junior scientist - graduate student or postdoc -  starts working the end of his contract seems very far away. In all cases (my experience relates to 30+ supervised PhD theses) the end of this period comes in sight much quicker than anticipated both by the junior as by the supervisor. So you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding information on (web) pages and slides. Top left please.</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/finding-information-on-web-pages-and-slides-top-left-please_73</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/finding-information-on-web-pages-and-slides-top-left-please_73#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 13:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Left or right
In western societies we write from left to right. In mundane texts lines are left justified. This alignment allows for quick reading. You do not know yet what will be in the new line, but you (and above all your eyes) sure know where it begins. You can improve readability by implementing full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should we pay referees?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/should-we-pay-referees_71</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/should-we-pay-referees_71#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 10:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

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

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/should-we-pay-referees_71</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For editors of scientific journals it is quite hard to find referees, leave alone good referees, for peer reviewing their received manuscripts. A good referee is a person that sends in a good referee report and does so in time, and responds quickly to additional requests from the editors. Why don&#8217;t peers want to review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scientist&#8217;s micro-world</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/the-scientists-micro-world_69</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/the-scientists-micro-world_69#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 08:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timmo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Research and education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To the scientist, the lab is like a church or a sanctuary, a micro-world where he finds a safe environment to develop his ideas, and where his jargon is well understood by his colleagues. The gospel he preaches is illustrated with graphs, and is proven beyond reasonable doubt with experimental data, up to three digits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Share the experience</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/share-the-experience_70</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/share-the-experience_70#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 22:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post I described why I find a two-day course, an ineffective training for reducing PhD-supervisor miscommunications. In this post I like to present a suggestion, which I think may be more effective.
By my critical essay I did not want to question the good will of the FOM personnel service and the trainers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The one minute PhD</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/the-one-minute-phd_65</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/miscellaneous/the-one-minute-phd_65#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I participated in the second day of the training course “Taking charge of your PhD-project”. This is a one-time mandatory course for all PhD-students employed by FOM, which I estimate to be more than 100 persons per year.
To make a long story very short, I must say I was deadly bored.
My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proposal is unacceptable. He wears red shoes.</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/proposal-is-unacceptable-he-wears-red-shoes_66</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/ethics/proposal-is-unacceptable-he-wears-red-shoes_66#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A young scientist in his early thirties, with more than 40 publications and a permanent position at a European university, has gotten the following  comment in the judgment of his research proposal: the candidate writes articles with many different coauthors. And, that is listed in the weak points of the proposal.
I assume a scientific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jam-packed slides, with some bad examples</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/presentations_quality/jam-packed-slides-with-some-bad-examples_60</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/presentations_quality/jam-packed-slides-with-some-bad-examples_60#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 20:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Presentations quality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Presenting science in front of an audience invariably implies presentation of slides, either as support for the spoken text, or as the main ingredient of the presentation. I always wonder why these slides are so ill-designed: awful contrast, extremely busy, inconsistent lay-out through the slide show, wildly varying font sizes etc. The metaphors that come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who needs coauthors?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/who-needs-coauthors_57</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/who-needs-coauthors_57#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 10:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Young people, in tenure track positions, feel they to have to collect as many authorships as possible. Questions like &#8220;Will I be a coauthor?&#8221; and demands as &#8220;I have to be a coauthor&#8221; are part of daily conversations in science institutes.
But not only junior scientists are eager to boost their cv&#8217;s  with authored papers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short or long sentences</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/short-or-long-sentences_58</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/short-or-long-sentences_58#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Article composition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[writing guidelines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are a couple of different opinions about the length of sentences in a scientific article. A scientific argument should be precise. It usually contains many technical terms that must be well-defined, thus should be described verbally. Descriptive phrases or sentences need to be linked somehow to the central message of the paragraph, which can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling science with candy sticks and flying carpets</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/high-impact-journals/selling-science-with-candy-sticks-and-flying-carpets_32</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/high-impact-journals/selling-science-with-candy-sticks-and-flying-carpets_32#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[High-impact journals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Not only the scientific  glossy magazines but also the professional journals  are invaded by the colorful graphs that either look like an artificially colored moon landscape, or like a collection of candy sticks or like a flying carpet. I do not like them and in particular the candy sticks I find ugly.
In physics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;Nature&#8221; entails more coauthors</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/high-impact-journals/a-nature-entails-more-coauthors_45</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/high-impact-journals/a-nature-entails-more-coauthors_45#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[High-impact journals]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Is it true that  articles in high-impact journals involve, in average, more coauthors?
A while ago, I was involved in writing a review article, which finally included around 270 references. Being not very experienced in using BibTeX, I had to manually enter many references in my TeX-file. There I noticed that Nature and Science entries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unwanted hard returns frustrate me</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/efficient-email/unwanted-hard-returns-frustrate-me_44</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/efficient-email/unwanted-hard-returns-frustrate-me_44#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Efficient email]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When people reply to an email message I sent them, they often append my (full) email message in the body of their email.  When I look at the text of my echoed email I get frustrated. I see that my text has acquired a large number of awkward line breaks, at positions where I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Un-nerd my life</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/phd_life/un-nerd-my-life_42</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/phd_life/un-nerd-my-life_42#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PhD life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scientific community]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social impact]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[He calculates the Fourier-transform of a rational function in his mind. He inverts a 9 by 9 complex valued matrix on the back of an envelope in ten minutes. At the age of 30, He publishes one chapter of a book and 10 articles every year, in 3 of these articles he is a single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do scientists have great jobs?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/do-scientists-have-great-jobs_37</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/do-scientists-have-great-jobs_37#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Scientist go to conferences held at exotic places. They go to winter schools where they teach in the morning and ski in the afternoon. Researchers are getting paid for following their passion and pursuing their hobby.
If they are group leader they have the freedom to choose their subjects of study. Scholars are trusted by society [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new manuscript! Where to start?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/a-new-manuscript-where-to-start_36</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/getting-published/a-new-manuscript-where-to-start_36#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting published]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Scientific report]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a junior researcher with a little experience in writing articles, I have asked a few senior scientists about the part that they think is the best to start writing a manuscript from. Some experimentalists propose to start with the graphs and their captions. For a theory article, some scientists like to start with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iterating scientific texts effectively</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/iterating-scientific-texts-effectively_35</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/research-and-education/iterating-scientific-texts-effectively_35#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramy El-Dardiry</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Research and education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The writing of scientific texts is often initiated by a junior scientist working out his findings in a draft version of a paper or thesis. Then, he discusses this draft version with his direct supervisor, professor, or co-author. As pointed out in the writing guide, this reviewing should be a bilateral iteration process. If these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inbox is no to-do list</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/efficient-email/inbox-is-no-to-do-list_34</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/efficient-email/inbox-is-no-to-do-list_34#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diederik</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Efficient email]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The arrival of email has opened up a new communication channel that can be extremely efficient. Actually sometimes too efficient. It can take 30 seconds to write an email that means hours of work on the receiving side. This, together with the sheer volume of work-related emails that scientists tend to receive, can provoke a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abolish relative arbitrary units</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/high-impact-journals/abolish-relative-arbitrary-units_33</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/high-impact-journals/abolish-relative-arbitrary-units_33#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ad Lagendijk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[High-impact journals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ideal
Scientists that  have made observations, or have obtained their results from a calculation or a simulation want to present these findings in a figure. If you are an old-fashioned scientist you use as format a dull plot with a labeled x-axis and a labeled y-axis and a curve mapping points on these axes. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repeating questions</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/speaking-in-public/repeating-the-questions_30</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencesurvivalblog.com/speaking-in-public/repeating-the-questions_30#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanli</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Speaking  in public]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[presentation skills]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[repeating questions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the presentation guide, repeating questions in order to involve the whole audience is said to be a golden rule for which there is no exception. I have no doubt in the importance of repeating questions, but speakers must be careful not to distress themselves and the audience.
In our department, consisting of 6 groups, we [...]]]></description>
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