Dirk Riehle's Comments on Science and Academia

Category: 1. Research

  • Editorial quality at Elsevier

    Editorial quality at Elsevier

    If you ever wondered about editorial quality at Elsevier, look no further. Original here and in case it gets fixed, on the Web Archive here, and finally the PDF.

  • How to extend the authorship list of a research article

    How to extend the authorship list of a research article

    Let’s assume you are a scientist, collaborating with another scientist on some research project that will lead to exactly one article (to keep things simple). How should you go about involving further scientists, perhaps to perform even stronger research? The answer is simple, if you work from first principles. Here there are the two key…

  • When there is no alternative to inner source [Upcoming talk]

    When there is no alternative to inner source [Upcoming talk]

    I’ve been settling on this talk to motivate our inner source work; I will be holding it a couple of times over the coming year, most notably first at the upcoming Inner Source Summit 2023. Title: When there is no alternative to inner source Abstract: Sometimes, there is no alternative to using inner-source software development. In this talk, I look at the…

  • Upcoming talks in 2023 Q4

    Upcoming talks in 2023 Q4

    I’m happy to report about my upcoming presentations in the fourth quarter of 2023. I may be adding more talks to this list as last minute confirmations come in.

  • Open collaborative data engineering [Upcoming talk]

    Open collaborative data engineering [Upcoming talk]

    After a couple of closed trials, I’m happy to report about a new talk on open collaborative data engineering. I will give the talk in the LATECE seminar at UQAM on Nov 29, 2023. Title: Open collaborative data engineering Abstract: The JValue project investigates open collaborative data engineering: We are trying to take the world…

  • Is science biased?

    Is science biased?

    tl;dr The individual researcher typically is, but science as a community of peers isn’t. (For caveats see bottom of post.) This post was inspired by a social media post by Prem Devanbu. Individual scientists naturally have opinions, ambitions, and hopes, and this influences the research questions they chase and the hypotheses they frame. Despite many…