While being a postdoc in bioinformatics, Kristian Rother came to embrace Lean & Agile thinking. Accordingly, he started to use Kanban to juggle all the projecs he was running. “Agile is not a book of rules, you still have to do a lot of thinking,” Kristian Rother says. “And yes, it fully applies to academic […]
What is Agile Science? I still don’t know, but as a former molecular biologist who is writing about Agile issues for organisations like Softhouse and Scania, I certainly like the sound of the expression. Feel free to join me on my exploration! In 1921, the Italian Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello published his play Sei personaggi […]
A multinational team, lead by Vienna-based Dmitry and Alex Chekh, is currently preparing the launch of a new kind of knowledge resource on the web. Stelum is an online collaborative platform for short explanations to which anyone can contribute. ”Our goal is to give the reader a simple explanation, which will help them grasp any […]
We are happy to announce The Crastina science haiku competition! The challenge is to describe your research, alternatively your work or studies in the STEMM field, in the form of a haiku.
“Text, text, everywhere, Nor any message to get.” Paraphrasing Coleridge, we introduce this month’s theme: ”short & punchy”. Our column writer is Olle Bergman, Swedish freelance writer and project leader of Crastina. Exhibit A: The Decalogue, or Ten Commandments, hugely impacted the world since the 7th century BC. And yet it was printed (according to tradition) on just two stone […]
During 2016, Kelley Swain has been one of three poets in residence at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. “It’s a safe bet that poets will be interested in being ‘in residence’ at your institution,” she says. The residency has been a part of the Visions of Nature year and included three established UK poets who are known […]
Can the accessibility of a scientific article be improved if the original abstract is interpreted in poetic verse? Sam Illingworth – SciComm teacher at Manchester University and science poet – recently decided to explore this. The study: Are scientific abstracts written in poetic verse an effective representation of the underlying research? Hi Sam, how did you get the idea […]