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May. 17th, 2012 @ 02:42 pm My new Science blog
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Dear all,
I would like to invite anyone who is interested in fluorescent microscopy to my new blog:
green fluorescent blog (http://greenfluorescentblog.wordpress.com/).
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dexter-happy
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May. 10th, 2012 @ 03:33 pm Mendeley vs EndNote
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I'm in the process of writing my dissertation and manuscript for peer review. I just started inserting references and noticed that -ack!- Mendeley isn't reading my references correctly. First author, journal title, etc are all messed up. It's early enough in the process that I can scrap Mendeley and use EndNote for everyone (my campus has EndNote available for free).  Should I dump Mendeley for EndNote or correct everything manually after the writing is all done?

Suggestions? Pros and cons of doing each?

Zotero's not an option because I'm using a PC for my writing.

EDIT on 5/23/12: My problem ended up being McAffee.  I deleted that and installed MSE instead. Mendeley works almost perfectly now.  And it's letting me edit references after they're imported into the document.  Things are running far smoother than when I wrote my last grant proposal using EndNote.
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Box Dude
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May. 9th, 2012 @ 05:46 am Teaching/Grading
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I am a PhD student in math and this semester I was teaching an upper-level undergraduate course (juniors and seniors, math majors mostly). This is not the first time I am teaching this course, so I do have some experience. Now I am grading the final exams and I have no idea which grade I should give to one of the students.
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May. 3rd, 2012 @ 02:18 pm What We Should Call Grad School
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This is more relevant to people in sciences but should still be humorous to most grads. Enjoy!

http://whatshouldwecallgradschool.tumblr.com/
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Don't Panic
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Apr. 22nd, 2012 @ 05:32 pm (no subject)
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I was wondering:

To all you folks who are gearing up to write a dissertation and defend next year, what are you doing to keep yourself in mental/physical shape? Are you setting goals, preparing battle plans, retreating into a dissertation den?

Anyone else setting up an accompanying long-term goal project (I'm basically doing a 101 in 1001 thing) in order to keep themselves from going crazy over dissertating/the job market?
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oh black waters keep on rolling. . .
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Apr. 25th, 2012 @ 10:38 am Summer Academic Working Groups
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Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the formation of Summer Academic Working Groups for the 2012 season. Summer Academic Working Groups (SAWG) are clusters of academics working in related fields or on related topics who agree to exchange work in progress and feedback on a regular basis during the unstructured summer months. Participants often find that the deadlines provided by such a group are at least as valuable to their summer productivity as the feedback itself.

Participation is open to academics of all levels and disciplines, and there is no charge to participate. More information and the registration form are available at http://lpowner.jayandleanne.com/sawg.

Please feel free to circulate this announcement widely.
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Apr. 27th, 2012 @ 10:29 am Questions about two different schools and their programs
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I was wondering, anyone here currently in or was in George Washington University's community health program?  Or is there anyone here currently in or was in Drexel's public health program? If so what do you think about Drexel's community health oriented classes/program?
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Amy and Rory and the Doctor
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Mar. 28th, 2012 @ 01:44 am Graduate School Is a Means to a Job
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Graduate School Is a Means to a Job

I thought this was a pretty good article in The Chronicle; it gives some really good advice. It is geared more towards the humanities/social sciences so some of the advice applies more to those areas (e.g. going on the market while ABD... that seems to be much more common in these fields). But most of the advice can be applied to all different disciplines.
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Wall-E
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Feb. 7th, 2012 @ 08:42 pm Selling MCAT books, for around $10!
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I'm not sure if this is taboo in this community- my sincerest apologies if it is. But I figured I would try. I'm going to put it underneath a cut just in case it's out of place or offensive.
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could you laugh about it?
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Feb. 5th, 2012 @ 09:20 pm one more question.
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I'm getting to a point where I cannot manage my articles: there are some that I printed out, some that are saved for future considerations, some that are not particularly useful for research. How do you keep them all straight? Do you use RefWorks for this too? I've only used it to create bibliographies at the very end. What is your research/citation management system?
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