From Nick If there is one thing I love more than research, it has to be travelling. Every chance I get I try to book a holiday somewhere new. As you can imagine being a researcher and travelling to conferences on a regular basis is a perfect fit for me. However, I treat most of [...]

…from Luciola   Many of us (ICECReamers) are always looking for opportunities overseas to do some collaborative work, post-docs, and so on.  You are all welcome to visit my country to participate in a new (and huge) research program named “Science without borders”! The Brazilian government is promoting the collaboration of Brazilians and the international [...]

  From Steve Research is a competitive business. Researchers compete against each other for grants, promotions, fellowships, awards etc etc. In order to ‘be competitive’, we need to publish both in terms of quantity (especially early in the career) and in terms of quality (as determined by the impact factor of the journals we publish [...]

…from Nick Check this interesting, interactive graph published in nature.com today: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110330/article-related/471559a.vm The related article mentions what we have been saying all along here at the ICECReam… the more collaboration across countries, the bigger the impact of the research. I bet they also had a bunch of fun in the process. (yes, I purposely chose [...]