Deadline awareness for everybody
I and my family are now up in Oregon to experience the total solar eclipse. Which will be amazing.
This
Recommended reads #110
This, I think, is ingenious and next-level stuff: Designing malware to hack bioinformatics software by coding it into the DNA
Requiem for a sabbatical
I haven’t had any service or teaching duties on my campus since May 2016. That ends today. I know,
What are best ways to learn R?
Over my year of sabbatical, I planned to become comfortably proficient with data manipulation and analysis with R. I’m
Recommended reads #109
A quick guide to effective grassroots advocacy for scientists.
Why I don’t ask students to write the thesis statement
The campus free speech issue isn’t about free speech
When toxic hatemongers* want to speak on our campuses, they don’t have an intellectual discussion in mind — they merely
What’s up with preprints?
image from prepubmed
Preprints are not a standard practice in biology. Nowadays, most papers that get published in peer-reviewed journals
Recommended reads #108
Wow. This opinion piece written by a scientist, who is a whistleblower working in the Department of Interior, is both
The writing curse of negative data
Summer is sometimes a contemplative time for me. It used to be long hours in the field would give me
Safety in the field
Here is a reminder: safety comes first.
I recently heard some reports from a student who was working with lab