So, you are attending your first conference
What to expect when you have been accepted.
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How to set expectations for new employees, or new research students.
Keeping track of literature – the Second Brain approach
Whether you are a PhD student, an active researcher, or a final year student researching for their main project, keeping track of literature is key. The availability of modern bibliometric tools like Google Scholar, or Web of Science makes literature discovery easy. A broadband search can yield anywhere between 5K to 50K hits (or worse,…
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Three ways to counter stage fright
In appreciation of Adam Neely’s latest video, and some additional tips.
Implementing Online-Hardware Hybrid Labs
The philosophical underpinnings, reflections from in-class observations, and the full GitHub repository of lab material – for a measurement and instrumentation course designed around the Raspberry Pi platform.
Overcoming programming aversion via a problem-solving approach
Some reflections on my experiences with helping students develop programming-based problem solving skills in photonics.
CC-BY-NC code examples included!
Doing research, like making music?
How can we strive for emergence when doing research? The Twitter-verse reflects.
Using Constructive Alignment for Academic Writing IV – Workflow
In Part III, I presented some general writing tools.
In this part, let’s see how to bring these together to realise a workflow for arriving at a constructively aligned piece of writing.
Using Constructive Alignment for Academic Writing III – Tools
In the previous part, I elaborated on how we can use the abstract to define the learning objectives/outcomes of our paper. In this part, I present four tools you can use to ensure your writing is constructively aligned to these learning outcomes
The Route to Mastery
Postulating a meta-approach to upskilling for practicing professionals.