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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Social media lure academics frustrated by journals
An excerpt from chronicle.com of February this year: A survey carried out by David Nicholas’ Ciber research group at UCL, involving 2414 researchers in 215 countries showed that “social scientists and humanists were the biggest users of social media” and ”Social … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Public engagement, Social media
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Worlds’ Greatest Keyboard Shortcut
Tabbed browsing is great, but what happens if you accidentally close one of the many tabs you had open? Stop your cursing – it’s easy: CTRL-SHIFT-T (CMD-SHIFT-T on a Mac). Your accidentally-closed tab automagically re-opens. Just stumbled across this gem … Continue reading
Helping you to help yourselves – the Benefit of Research Staff Associations
Back in the day, when I was a researcher, I was part of a local committee for post-docs that provided a voice for all of us in the institution. Some people didn’t want to get involved, but for those of … Continue reading
Posted in Networking, Resource, Social
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The Great Hindsight Giveaway
This is on behalf of Debi Maskell-Graham and Becky Brown in the Centre for Child and Family Research. Dear Fellow Research Staff and Researching Academics Everywhere! The Great Hindsight Giveaway Whilst lost on fieldwork in the West Midlands last year, … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Dissemination, Public engagement, Resource, Social, Virtual research
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BOS want to know what you think of BOS…
Any Bristol Online Survey users out there? Let the BOS team know what you like and dislike as they work to improve the service, and you can enter a prize draw to win an iPod shuffle… The survey is here … Continue reading
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Bye bye, Bee…
Bee handed over the role of Research Staff Development Officer back to Kathryn last week, after steering the RSD ship since November. It’s tough to parachute into a role in an unfamiliar institution, learning all the nuances of the stakeholders … Continue reading
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Google Sites – new page-level security
Google Apps for Education got an interesting tweak this week – if you thought the security on Sites was a bit coarse (ie. could only share/hide the whole site) then hurrah for page-level permissions. You can now control who can view … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Google Apps, Organising information, Public engagement, Resource
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