Tag: Research

22/07/2022

Let’s talk about Questionnaires

Why are questionnaires always so badly designed? Why do people think it is easy to put a questionnaire together? This post considers the key problems in an honest, candid way. I see quite a lot of ‘quantitative’ research from various sources, both scientific (positivist) and humanities (interpretivist). I also see various random market research questionnaires about stuff like technology/ apps/...

Blog/Learning & Teaching/PostDoc

06/05/2022

The Challenges of Peer Review

This post is about dealing with difficult peer review, particularly reviewers who are rude and patronising. It’s made up of three posts shared in Facebook and I reproduce largely intact. Dealing with negative peer review is always *interesting* The gatekeeping of academic work by others ‘in the field’ sounds good in theory but in practice can sometimes be an exercise...

Blog/Learning & Teaching/PhD/PostDoc

Untitled 03/02/2023
Relax. Art installation. My place.#photography #GX9 #panasonicGX9 #panasonic #processing #photoshop #filters #abstract #abstractart #digitalart
Untitled 27/01/2023
Byron walking in the outer ring Nebula on the 14th moon of Jupiter in a steampunk chariot spaceship gliding amongst angels, beautiful surreal landscape, cosmic sky, detailed, realistic, (...) magical, detailed, alien plants, gloss, hyperrealism#stablediffusion #starryai #aiart #ai #openai
Untitled 27/01/2023
Data breach at Twitter. I was alerted through Nord VPN Dark Web alerts that there had been a possible date breach at Twitter. BE AWARE. I just received an email asking for feedback from support I requested on 20th of January, asking me to rate the support. I didn't ask for any support. This confirms […]
Untitled 26/01/2023
Well, she was an American girl Raised on promises After all it was a great big world With lots of places to run to... masterpiece detailed 4k futuristic cyberpunk city slum, pipes cables tubes computers billboards screens, retro motorcycles...#StableDiffusion v1.5 #aiart #nightcafe #genart #ai
Untitled 26/01/2023
The Ango Dance Hall. Time has stopped in the side streets and old warehouses of northern Malta.#Mediterannean #islandlife#photography #GX9 #panasonicGX9 #panasonic #processing

Untitled 01/02/2023
Visions of smart city as techno utopian VC fantasy have been dying a death in the literature for at least a decade, and Im happy to be a part of that, in a small way. From Jane Jacobs on city is people, memory and lives, not industry, machines and data. Data is generated as a […]
Untitled 30/01/2023
Another earthquake in Malta, the biggest yet of various tremors over past few weeks. The seismic activity monitor at university says its 5.3 but it felt much more and lasted about 8 seconds. All my computer monitors were shaking!#earthquake #malta #Mediterranean
Untitled 30/01/2023
Migrating wordpress to Grav. I tested wp2grav (7 years old) found on old forum posts for exporting WP to Grav. It still works fine, generating markdown with accurate front matter and retaining all urls, plus any in line images (not featured images). Just dump the posts in a new list page subfolder and they show […]
Untitled 28/01/2023
Progressing well with Grav. It's a really good experience to be back doing some dev and brushing up my (basic) git skills. I'm running this in Laragon, which is great, and updated to php8.1. Windows bash works nicely and everything is on a SanDisk USB drive. Theme is Striped, using Markdown Extra, set up a […]
Untitled 26/01/2023
Tomorrow is Friday and I have a gap in "allocated tasks" (aka slog) so I'm devoting the day to reacquainting myself with git (on windows to make it harder) and learn more about Grav. This will divert my attention from dangerous thoughts about jacking in work altogether and becoming a surf bum.#work #dropout #git #webdev […]