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mrbig

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🧑🏻‍🔬 PhD, researcher, zoologist
🌷 Assembly member of the political party LIVRE

🐘 Follow me for toots about:
🦔 Science: conservation, behavioral ecology, small mammals, camera trapping;
🍁 Left/green politics: environmental sustainability, trains, social justice, free and open-source software;
🇵🇹 Portugal random stuff

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aspiringcat, to academicchatter
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Every couple of months I get slightly annoyed by Zotero and look for other reference managers and come to the conclusion that others are far more buggy!

Why don’t we have a reference manager that’s more — modern? Why can’t I take notes like I would in a good text editor? The way to add notes is clunky, I can’t easily see what papers have cited the current paper? Generating notes from my annotations is always not intuitive? Am I missing something here?

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mrbig,
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@aspiringcat @academicchatter The best method to solve that, I found, is to synchronize Zotero with a note-taking app (LogSeq, Obsidian or Zettlr). Use Zotero as a reference manager and another app to take notes that point to your Zotero files. Zotero 6 improved this cross-platform note-taking task thanks to the PDF viewer. It's still a little clunky, but it's better than the current integranted note-taking system.

mrbig,
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@independentpen @aspiringcat @academicchatter They are all excellent and serve different purposes. @zettlr is the best one if you're only interested in academic work. If you prefer to work with an outliner or journal-style notes, @logseq is the best one. They are both open-source. @obsidian is better if you're interested in a more flexible and interlinked note-taking system. This is the one I use. All three apps use local markdown files to keep your notes. Hope that was helpful :ablobsmile:

petersuber, to academicchatter
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New study: "Our results show that Chinese PhD student significant pressures to publish in order to obtain their degree, with papers indexed in the Science Citation Index [] often a mandatory requirement for students to obtain their degree. Moreover, it is found that first authorship is also mandatory."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04854-8


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mrbig,
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@Thcoudreau @wolfgangcramer @petersuber @academicchatter I can confirm that in Portugal things have NOT changed for biologists. PhD students are mandated to have at least one scientific article published. Most supervisors enforce this rule. And even if they don't, the student is penalized when defending its thesis, regardless of the work or content of the thesis.

mrbig, to academicchatter
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Yesterday I successfully executed my first web scraping in R :ablobcathappypaws: It was my first time investigating a website so deeply. I also learned that dynamic pages are a pain to scrape from. Still, I'm curious to try other pages!

@academicchatter @rstats #R #webscraping #polite #rvest #RSelenium

EU_Commission, to random
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We are one in fighting climate change.

Our latest special Eurobarometer survey shows it:

  • 93% believe climate change is a serious problem facing the world.

  • 93% of Europeans have already taken individual climate actions and made sustainable choices.

  • 87% think it is important that we set ambitious targets to increase renewable energy.

Our is all about it.

Let's build this future together.

Discover all the results: https://europa.eu/!GCRF7d

A visual with a key figure from the latest special Eurobarometer on climate change. In the bottom-right corner, the photo of a radiator knob. On the rest of the visual, the text: “93% are already taking individual climate actions and consciously making sustainable choices.”
A visual with a key figure from the latest special Eurobarometer on climate change. In the top-right corner, the photo of a person wearing a helmet at a photovoltaic power station. In the bottom-left corner, the image of a person from a climate demonstration. On the rest of the visual, the text: “88% of European agree that greenhouse gas emission should be reduced to a minimum.”
A visual with a key figure from the latest special Eurobarometer on climate change. In the top-right corner, the photo of a man and a woman wearing a helmet at a photovoltaic power station. On the rest of the visual, the text: “87% of Europeans think it’s important that the EU sets ambitious targets to increase renewable energy use.”

mrbig,
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@EU_Commission It's great to see that people are taking individual action against climate change. But I would rather see corporate action too featured in your message. Because these have a considerably larger carbon footprint and can make impactful changes that outweigh hundreds of individual actions.

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