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Commercial Altmetric Explorer aimed at publishers
Altmetrics is hitting its stride: 30 months after the Altmetrics manifesto1, there are 6 tools listed. This is great news! I tried out the beta of a new commercial tool, The Altmetric Explorer, from...
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Attached?
I noticed that GMail is warning about missing attachments and heard that Thunderbird does this, too, from Arber Borix, who also responded to a request for a screenshot (below). Thanks, Arber!...
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Google Docs ‘research’ tab
Increasingly, I’m using Google Docs with collaborators. Yesterday, one of them pointed out the new “Research” search tab within Google Docs. (Tools->Research). I’m a bit surprised that your...
View Article“Excuse my typo” signature lines, a collection
For about a year I’ve been collecting email signature lines. After receiving an email purporting to be “Sent from my rotary phone” I thought it was time to share. Touched, not typed Sent from my...
View ArticleTemperature conversions for Americans living in mild climates
Converting temperatures in your head is a good trick for Americans living abroad. So here’s the trick. You memorise the following correspondences: 0 °C = 32 °F 10 °C = 50 °F 20 °C = 68 °F 30 °C = 86...
View ArticleQOTD – physical computing
Personal computers have evolved in an office environment in which you sit on your butt, moving only your fingers, entering and receiving information censored by your conscious mind. That is not your...
View ArticleEvidence Informatics
I sent off my revised abstract to ECA Lisbon 2015, the European Conference on Argumentation. Evidence informatics, in 75 words: Reasoning and decision-making are common throughout human activity....
View ArticleQOTD: Doing more requires thinking less
by the aid of symbolism, we can make transitions in reasoning almost mechanically by the eye which would otherwise call into play the higher faculties of the brain. …Civilization advances by extending...
View Article#ShutDownSTEM #strike4blacklives #ShutDownAcademia
I greatly appreciated receiving messages from senior people about their participation in the June 10th #ShutDownSTEM #strike4blacklives #ShutDownAcademia. In that spirit, I am sharing my email bounce...
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Avoiding long-haul air travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
I would not recommend long-haul air travel at this time. An epidemiological study of a 7.5 hour flight from the Middle East to Ireland concluded that 4 groups (13 people), traveling from 3 continents...
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