I was recently asked to record a snippet on Open Science, for the Open Science MOOC.Here's the statement that I prepared to organize my thoughts (I ended up rephrasing this as I talked for the recording, but the idea is…
The best tweet of the week/month must have been Sam Sherrington sharing a visual display of the results of a survey on the use of Twitter with 116 marine scientists:“@SagefemmeSB:@PhDForum @socphd @Phil_Baty infographic re researchers' use of twitter pic.twitter.com/NXKtuJlOs2 @ACBmidwife”>visually…
As a starting point for today's post, I've chosen Maria Konnikova's excellent blog post on "Why grad schools should require students to blog".Previously, we've looked at the benefit of blogging for your scholarly work, and how it can be valuable…
Flickr Image under CC license by ceolmTeaching science, especially to teenagers, should be an opportunity to share our love for science with curious and young people. But too often teachers simply end up boring their students to death. (I, too,…
Floris Visser postulates that scientists are artists – and his opinion hit a nerve for me. An opinion that also fits perfectly in my series about the Creative process.Too often, we seem to draw a line between the professions and…
In my vision of the future, blogging is as much a part of the academic world as peer-reviewed journal articles. There are several reasons for blogging, and blogging as well as more online sharing, could tackle publication bias.But at the…
When I went for my PhD Start-Up training course, I learned to know the expression "Science is fun".In the end, as a researcher, you are in the privileged position to play around with ideas, use your time to explore different…
This blog was originally written live at TEDxDelft 2011When I woke up this morning, all excited about today's event, I started thinking about "ideas worth spreading". Somehow, and not surprisingly, I thought of Richard Feynman. His way of thinking, and…
I originally live-blogged this post from TEDxDelftThe first Dutch-born astronaut ever, Lodewijk van den Berg, gave an inspiring talk about research in space, and how he went from being a crystal growth scientist to becoming an astronaut.From scientist to astronautThe…
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