I've often wanted to mark up arbitrary Web sites with annotations and reminders, and it's always been puzzling to me that this is missing from the Web. In recent years, I've heard more and more about a small non-profit called Hypothesis, which provides this general functionality via both a Chrome …
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This version of the site policy was posted in Oct 2015 and applies going forward from then. I'll provide an updated link whenever I update the policy.
The text was lifted from Captain Awkward's site policy at the URL http://captainawkward.com/site-policies-and-faqs/ on Oct 19, 2015, and then modified …
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Pubwication. Pubwication is what bwings us togethew today. Pubwication, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam within a dweam. And authorship, twue authorship, wiww fowwow you fowevah and evah. So tweasuwe youw authorship.
Last week, our software paper on khmer 2.0 was published on F1000Research. We intend this paper to be …
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Note: at the Lab for Data Intensive Biology, we're trying out a new journal club format where we summarize our thoughts on the paper in a blog post. For this blog post, Lisa Cohen wrote the majority of the text and the rest of us added questions and comments; Lisa …
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I just heard the sad news that Eric Davidson, my PhD advisor, passed away.
Eric was a giant in the field of developmental biology and gene regulatory networks. His work spanned more than fifty years, and had an indelible impact on gene regulation studies. (You can read up on his …
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On June 11th, 2010, I remember dropping the last workshop attendee off at the Kalamazoo train station, turning the car towards home, and nearly sobbing in relief that workshop was over and done and I could finally get some sleep now. That workshop was the first of a series of …
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Just as I was moving to UC Davis, a funding call for a training coordination center came out. I got partway down the path of applying for it before realizing that I was overwhelmed with the move, but I did generate some text that I thought was OK. Here it …
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