I work as a contractor for a small IT company. I recently was informed that a specific client company had switched providers, and I had worked closely with several employees of this company. It would be nice to stay in touch with people I actually worked/interacted with, so I was wondering if it would be frowned upon to stay in touch with them, or ask them for a reference, or maybe add them on LinkedIn? The company that I work for only has one other worker (the owner), but I go days without t...| Recent Questions - The Workplace Stack Exchange
Written by Sarah Burhouse, Caitlin Jamison, Bethany Palumbo & Vicky Ward. Compiled by Jennifer Gallichan, Vertebrate Curator, Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales. Those of us that that are lucky enough to work with natural science collections will be familiar with … Continue reading →| NatSCA
Compiled by Milo Phillips, Digitisation Co-ordinator at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Welcome to the October edition of NatSCA Digital Digest. A monthly blog series featuring the latest on wh…| NatSCA
Written by Clare Brown, Leeds Museums and Galleries. Taking a walk through a forest, running through fields of wheat or even just gazing at trees, all a far-cry from dealing with the sheets of pres…| NatSCA
Written by Dr Christina Thatcher, Lecturer in Creative Writing & Dr Lisa El Refaie, Reader in Language and Communication, Cardiff University. With biodiversity declining at an alarming rate, we need to find ways of encouraging people to care about all … Continue reading →| NatSCA
Should citations in scholarly writing appear as author-year snippets, like (Pantcheva, 2018; Zelle, 2015), or numbers, like [1,2]? Let’s refer to these two methods as author-style and numeric-style. You may have also heard them referred to as the Harvard and Vancouver referencing systems. Author-style Here’s an example of author-style from our recent Sci-Hub Coverage Study published in eLife. First, see how citations appear in the main text: Notice how studies with 3 …| Satoshi Village
Written by Dan Gordon, Keeper of Biology, The Great North Museum: Hancock. So, how did I get started in museums? Like perhaps many people, it began with a stroke of luck. I’d decided to study Biolo…| NatSCA
By Eimear Ashe, Collections Moves Project Manager, National Museum of Ireland Having recently completed a major decant of Natural History collections in the National Museum of Ireland, I thought it…| NatSCA
Sometimes when reading about C++, for instance about template argument deduction, the term “top-level cv-qualifiers” comes up. I just spent an unreasonable amount of time being puzzled by something because I didn’t understand that references don’t have top-level cv-qualifiers. This post will hopefully help the next person (hi, next-year Anders) not make the same mistake. … Continue reading References don’t have top-level cv-qualifiers→| C++ on a Friday
Jennifer Sakhnovsky, MA, JAMA Network The short answer is yes, but with a caveat: transparency is key. It is no secret that generative artificial intelligence (AI) models can create various types o…| AMA Style Insider
Note: This is not a comprehensive list. I have focused on more recent papers and tried to be parsimonious. The links to the abstracts and open access papers below were checked and updated on June 7, 2019. This list is periodically updated.| Electromagnetic Radiation Safety
When conducting business references, use these guidelines: By following these guidelines, you can conduct thorough and respectful business references that help inform your decision-making process. The post Guidelines for conducting reference checks appeared first on Tribal Resource Center.| Tribal Resource Center
… the assassination of Peringue, the French heavy-water specialist who went over to the Communists through Berlin, added, thanks to the importance of his knowledge and the fact that we got hi…| Fleming's Bond
The girl gave a cheerful wave of a sunburned hand, raced up the street in second, and stopped in front of The Pipe of Peace, the Dunhills of Nassau.Fleming, Ian. Thunderball (James Bond) (p. 112). …| Fleming's Bond
Every year, treasure hunts for these and other ships are carried out among the Southern Bahamas. No one can guess how much, if anything, has been recovered, but every-one in Nassau knows of the 72-…| Fleming's Bond
The Tannoy switched off with an echoing click.Again the Tannoy buzzed and echoed. ‘Transamerica regrets to announce a delay on their flight TR 618 to New York due to a mechanical defect.̵…| Fleming's Bond
