There is a project available for a Master’s student in our group “Plant Ecophysiology and Climate Change” to study the effects of microclimate on arctic-alpine plants at Kilpisjärvi Biological Research Station in summer 2015. Please see attachment for the full description and information on how to apply.
You thought peer-review system works and is reliable? Think again…
How to fail a PhD (Hyndsight post)
There is a short post on Rob Hyndman’s blog full of good advice for PhD students. The spirit of the post is much more widely applicable.
New Plant Biology Flyer [FI, EN]
I have written a flyer aimed mainly at students starting an M.Sc. Please, let me know if you have any suggestions.
PB_flyer_FI (Finnish version)
PB_flyer_EN (English version)
Lovelacen kreivitär kirjoitti tietokoneohjelman, ja häntä opasti Mary Somerville (Hessari 7.11.2014)
Today there was an interesting article in Helsingin Sannomat.
http://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/a1415168967244
The book by Mary Somerville, that is mentioned in the article is in the public domain and available, as many other old and interesting books, through the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/onconnexionphys00somegoog
I was particularly impressed by the preface written in the 1830’s:
In one of the comments in HS a reader writes that programming is boring… I disagree, just coding may be boring, but designing software and algorithms is anything but boring!
Another reader correctly says that Ada is not a super-computer langauge. In a way it was ment to be when it was designed, but in the sense of being a tool for creating reliable and bug-free software. However, as some other languages designed by a commitee it ended being too complex and inconsistent, and because of this difficult to use as a general purpose language.