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The Quest for Truth!2 comments

moerg wrote 1 week ago: Phew! Tired but happy. A couple of months ago I was asked to run a day activity for a group of 15-y … more »

Tags: projects, Arg, Education, Games, Puzzles, Widening Participation

Health Department Workshop To Improve Research Skils

wiv4 wrote 1 week ago: WIV4’s Nichelle Farrington reports on a workshop to improve the research skills of TCI’s … more »

Tags: Local News, Caribbean, Department of Health, Health Workshop, Medical School, Pre-med, Turks and Caicos

private companies keep stuff private

jmayotte wrote 3 weeks ago: “How much did private company X spent on marketing product A last year” “I need th … more »

Tags: Company

វិធីដើម្បីសរសេរអត្ថបទស្រាវជ្រាវ How to Write a Research Paper1 comment

Chanroeun Pa wrote 1 month ago: Many students don’t know what and how to write their research paper. Here is the outlines the … more »

Wikiality

Sandy Swanson wrote 2 months ago: Wikiality: Reality as defined by consensus, particularly in collaborative endeavors such as Wikipedi … more »

Tags: information literacy, Information, knowledge, librarians, Students, Teachers, Truth, wikiality, Wikipedia

Concluding Remarks

Liz wrote 3 months ago: This blog has been my attempt to document my development as a researcher and has encouraged me to be … more »

Tags: autobiography, cultural research, Feminism, person centred research

Nursing & Evidence Based Practice - What is Research and Why Should We Use It?

sjennings29 wrote 3 months ago:   Study Guide - What is Research and Why Should We Use It? Loretta Bellman , British Journal of Hea … more »

Tags: 1, Nursing, Study Guides, Evidence Based Practice, information literacy, patients, research evidence, Skills, study guide

Negotiating Person Centred Research. Week 8.1 comment

Liz wrote 5 months ago:   We were asked to design a possible person-centred piece of research for this seminar. The reading … more »

Tags: cultural research, Feminism, person centred research

Outsiders and great scientists

Pawel Szczesny wrote 5 months ago: Last weeks brought another worth reading pieces on being a scientist: one in PLoS Computational Biol … more »

Tags: Career, Advice, Essay, Ideas!, Paul Graham, Research

Interpreting Visual Cultures. Week 5.

Liz wrote 5 months ago: The task that we had to do for this week involved interpreting the pictures below after reading thre … more »

Tags: Content analysis, cultural research, Feminism, visual cultures

"Startup weekends" in science12 comments

Pawel Szczesny wrote 5 months ago: News about yet another “startup-weekend-like” event keep hitting me more and more often. … more »

Tags: bioinformatics, Services, Collaboration, Research, startups

Students are not great researchers1 comment

mrschu81 wrote 6 months ago: This study further shows the importance of skilled professionals in school libraries. My third gra … more »

Tags: School Library, Google, Education, technology, librarians, Yahoo, Web

Reading Women. Week 3.1 comment

Liz wrote 6 months ago: Provisional Abstract for Pearce Article (As a Practice on Writing Abstracts)   This chapte … more »

Tags: autobiography, Feminism, Reading

Ten simple rules for doing your best research - according to Richard Hamming

Pawel Szczesny wrote 8 months ago: There’s an editorial in PLoS Computational Biology presenting condensed thoughts on “fi … more »

Tags: Clipped, plos comp bio, Research, ten simple rules

Publishers, please provide images in the journal's feed

Pawel Szczesny wrote 9 months ago: Currently almost all scientific journals provide a RSS feed of their content. I am very grateful for … more »

Tags: Papers, PubMed, Research, Biochemistry, Science Journals

Manual sequence analysis - some common mistakes1 comment

Pawel Szczesny wrote 10 months ago: This is a topic I probably will come back to on many occasions. Publication with very wrong sequence … more »

Tags: Comments, Research

What is this Controlled Vocabulary Thing?

western4uk wrote 10 months ago: If you ever wander into the Fade Library for search training you’ll hear us talk about control … more »

Tags: Databases, Literature Searching, Searching, controlled vocabularies

Cite that Reference

western4uk wrote 10 months ago: Looking for a quick guide to the Harvard (author-date) or Vancouver (author-number) styles of refere … more »

Tags: Writing for publication, Citation Guides, Study Skills, referencing, Harvard Reference Style, Vancouver Reference Style, Author-Date Reference Style, Author-Number Reference Style

On the scripting skills3 comments

Pawel Szczesny wrote 11 months ago: The interview with dr Alexei Drummond inspired an interesting discussion. While I agree that some le … more »

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