Startup School is opening my eyes!

Post author:Jesus Capistran
Post published:November 25, 2020

The first time I was involved in co-founding a company called Solar Semiconductors Morelos (SEMOR) was when I worked in CEMIE-Sol. The objective was to create innovative products based on scientific background and their commercialization. This experience was revealing because all my background was in science and academia; therefore, I was forced to immerse in the innovation community. Now, the Y Combinator Startup school is opening my eyes because I can see some of the mistakes we made at that time. One of the most important was we were creating products from inside to outside which means we did not…

How to Create a Graphical Abstract for your Science Manuscript?

Post author:Jesus Capistran
Post published:November 20, 2020

Long time no see, but I have been drafting two manuscripts during the Covid-19 lockdown. The first one is about my 2020 postdoctoral project at the Physics Institute of BUAP (IFUAP), and the other one comes as a collaboration with my last research group at IER-UNAM. Both works are related to the synthesis of new materials for energy conversion, solar cell development, and numerical simulation using SCAPS-1D. At this stage, the writing process and discussion with my coworkers have almost come to an end. However, one of the requirements to submit the manuscript to the journal is to include a…

Redacción colaborativa en Manubot

Post author:Jesús Capistrán
Post published:August 8, 2020

Hace una semana llegó a mis manos un artículo de Nature.com sobre redacción colaborativa mediante un software llamado Manubot [zotpressInText item="{6612042:4ZV38YIM}"]. El artículo explica la posibilidad de redactar de forma abierta manuscritos científicos. La idea central es implementar un sistema de control de versiones (Git) online (GitHub) para organizar la redacción de documentos. Este método propone un cambio de paradigma a la forma habitual de trabajar de un investigador, ya que el sistema permite visualizar en todo momento el avance del documento. Al trabajar en la plataforma GitHub es posible administrar la colaboración de un grupo de participantes numeroso. Además,…