Censorship or business as usual?
There’s a screenshot of an email from the Department of Energy that is making the rounds. I’d like
EEB Mentor Match to help underrepresented students get graduate fellowships
I’ve griped about how undergraduates from wealthy private institutions and public research universities get the lion’s share of
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