I recently discovered Mendeley and it looks great. I wrote a mini-review.
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Reflections on life in academia: great blog from NY Times
One of my graduate students sent this article around. Great piece on the pressures facing academic faculty and the cost to creativity incurred by the current system. I know all too well how little genuine creativity really matters to most academic institutions. Its refreshing to hear someone else say it.
Get paid to write software this summer
Google runs a program each summer that pays students to work on open source software projects. I have mentored students in the past as part of the OSGeo project. See the 2009 project ideas page. My past mentees have been abroad, however I would much prefer to mentor a student locally in Austin. Please contact me if you are interested. (The program is open to both graduate and undergraduate students.)
