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25
Aug

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
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23
Aug

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
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21
Aug

Deadline awareness for everybody

I and my family are now up in Oregon to experience the total solar eclipse. Which will be amazing. This
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18
Aug

Recommended reads #110

This, I think, is ingenious and next-level stuff: Designing malware to hack bioinformatics software by coding it into the DNA
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14
Aug

Requiem for a sabbatical

I haven’t had any service or teaching duties on my campus since May 2016. That ends today. I know,
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07
Aug

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
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04
Aug

Recommended reads #109

A quick guide to effective grassroots advocacy for scientists. Why I don’t ask students to write the thesis statement
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31
Jul

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
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24
Jul

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
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21
Jul

Recommended reads #108

Wow. This opinion piece written by a scientist, who is a whistleblower working in the Department of Interior, is both
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