The Carpentries The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a Platinum Member Organization of the THE CARPENTRIES that comprise 3 communities: the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry. There is a lot of enthusiasm around the Caprentries at UW Madison as reported by this carpentry blog by UW-Madison Lauren Michael, now Lead Research Computational Facilitator at …
w3schools: Learn to Code On the w3schools site I was surprised to find a lot more than informational tutorial for Web coding such as CSS or PHP. The site offers a large number of well organized, self-paced tutorials on a much larger scale. Coding languages Here are a few that I find particularly useful to …
Learn X in Y minutes In the past we had “flash cards” to memorize and review materials. This site Learn X in Y minutes has one-page reminders that can be used to re-learn material or get some idea of what the subject is about. For example I wrote a series of 4 posts titled Do …
ORCID: Open Research and Contributor ID I have a rather unique name and finding my publications in Pubmed is usually not very difficult, even though it is not 100% fail proof. An O.R.C.ID is a unique identifier that some journals now require.In fact just last week I had to provide my ORCID to a journal …
Scientists need to communicate The art of communication is often overlooked in a Scientist career, but it is becoming increasingly important that Scientists learn to communicate at different levels. Telling a story is a powerful way to explain and interest people and there are proven techniques that can help. H. Adam Steinberg is a former …