Essays, notes, and blog posts on research, methods, technology, and academic life.
Experience and Poverty, by Walter Benjamin (1933)
A short reflection on Walter Benjamin’s ‘Experience and Poverty’ and on why the text still matters for thinking about transmission, crisis, and intellectual rebuilding.
Podcast - Tech Talk Show @ MITWS India
A short note about a guest appearance on MITWS India’s online radio show to discuss research, open science, and academic trajectories.
Online education and internet access
A fuller reflection on online education during the COVID-19 period and on the infrastructural inequalities that make internet access a central educational issue.
Open science?
Open access reconnects science with its underlying purpose: helping society progress by making research immediately and freely available to readers.
Exporting references from Mendeley to a CSV file
A practical workflow for exporting references from Mendeley into CSV format when working on systematic mapping or other spreadsheet-based review tasks.
Survey - Orange Money
If you live in Bamako, Kati, or nearby areas and know Orange Money, please take part in this survey on the benefits and challenges of Mali’s digital economy.
African Review of Social Sciences and Public Health (RASP), Vol. 19(1)
Presentation of Volume 19(1) of the African Review of Social Sciences and Public Health (RASP), its mission, anniversary context, and the articles included in the issue.
ACM Turing Award 2018
The ACM’s 2018 Turing Award was awarded to Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton. The Turing Award is often described as the Nobel Prize of computer science.
Quoting in LaTeX
A short introduction to quotation environments in LaTeX, with examples of the quote and quotation environments.
LaTeX, let's write!
A short note on LaTeX as a writing tool for technical, academic, and professional work that needs structure, consistency, and strong typesetting.
Learning to Program
An introductory guide for aspiring developers, with general resources, online courses, and language-specific starting points.
Guitar, not just an instrument
A short reflection on how peace, conflict, rebellion, and emotional tension can all be heard in the way we play an instrument.
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