I just finished reading Svante Paabo's autobiography, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes. The book is perfect -- if you're a biologist of any kind, you'll understand most of it without any trouble, and even physicists can probably get a lot out of the story (heh).
The book describes Svante …
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Every month, Bjorn Ostman finds another sucker^W^W^W organizes a Carnival of Evolution blog post, that does a roundup of blogs on evolution from a previous month. This month, I'm hosting it -- it's a bit late, due to some teaching duties, so apologies!
Trigger warning: This blog post …
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This past weekend, I accepted an offer to join UC Davis as an Associate Professor of Genetics in the Department of Population Health and Reproduction, in the School of Veterinary Medicine. The appointment is still pending tenure review, but I expect to join Davis whether or not they give me …
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The fifth annual Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data workshop just finished - #ngs2014. As usual the schedule and all of the materials are openly available.
tl; dr? Good stuff.
We've been running this thing since 2010, and we now have almost 120 alumni (5 classes of roughly 24 students each). The …
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Here are my talk notes for the Data Driven Discovery grant competition ("cage match" round). Talk slides are on slideshare You can see my full proposal here as well.
Hello, my name is Titus Brown, and I'm at Michigan State University where I run a biology group whose motto is …
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Our lab is part of the ongoing online conversation about how to properly credit software and algorithms; as is my inclination, we're Just Trying Stuff (TM) to see what works. Here's an update on our latest efforts!
A while back (with release 1.0 of khmer) we added a CITATION …
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Note to all: this is satire... As Marcia McNutt says below, please see Science Magazine's Contributors FAQ for more detailed information.
Recently I had some conversations with Science Magazine about preprints, and when they're counted as double publication (see: Ingelfinger Rule). Now, Science has an enlightened preprint policy:
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