During research studies, a vital part of the work is to think about the methodologies of the study. Although the method is perhaps an essential part of one research, the research question is an indispensable item for the method. I remember discussing our research questions with dozens of students at…

Today marks my first year working as a Researcher for Zup Innovation, a Brazilian tech company. When I joined Zup, I often told people that the last time I had a contract with a company was like ten years ago. But, of course, 10 years in the tech industry is…

Em 4 de Março de 2018, Shriram Krishnamurthi, um professor da universidade de Brown, nos EUA, escreveu uma thread no twitter desmistificando a fantasia que é estender um deadline, descrevendo o impacto que isso pode causar aos autores. Sempre que vejo alguém próximo comentando sobre as vantagens de adiar um…

The proverb “If You Want to Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want to Go Far, Go Together” is also true for academic settings. No matter how good work you could do alone, chances are that you could achieve more if you find good colleagues to collaborate with. By collaborating…

The Open Source Initiative (or OSI for short), is a global, non-profit institution that promotes the adoption and awareness of open source software. Among other things, OSI curated the Open Source Definition (OSD) which describes the minimum standards that one software system needs to be “open source” (according to OSI…

The MIT license is one of the shortest open source license available out there. It has only 167 words, grouped into four paragraphs. Nevertheless, the MIT license is one of the most used open source licenses. Perhaps the reason of its widely use is because it is easy to read…

In research, we generally start by gathering tons of data and running some analysis on them. You then write a draft about what you have found in your analysis, submit to a conference or journal, and, after it is accepted, hopefully the world will change based on your findings. In…

Academia can be a very difficult place. There is a fierce competition for an ever decreasing public research budget. There will always be someone, somewhere, with better equipment, better skills, better support, with more experience, etc. Your colleagues will always have more papers published and more funding raised than you…

No one works at full speed 100% of the time. Sometimes we are tired and we just want to spend some time browsing social network; and there is nothing wrong with it! However, when procrastinating online, try do so on Twitter. Indeed, Twitter could be a valuable tool to expose…