In my post on proselytizing version control, an underlying and implicit assumption was that version control was not fulfilling the function of a lab notebook. But I didn't make that explicit. And then someone asked in the comments. So now I'm making it explicit.
tl; dr? Version control's a really …
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I gave a talk yesterday at the 2013 BEACON Congress titled "How to build an enduring online research presence using social networking and open science." The talk slides are here.
This talk was a combined survey of sites and personal perspective on how social media has helped shape the last …
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Since I attended the entire STAMPS course at MBL this year, which was an entirely computational course, I had the opportunity to proselytize computational reproducibility and good practice to a number of people.
Now, with students I'm usually fairly gentle about this kind of thing, and try to get my …
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Late last year, inspired by a review I did of a Science submission, I wrote a blog post asking what people thought of the Insight Journal. This was in response to the submission's mention of Image Processing On Line.
The Science paper is finally out -- actually, I missed it, it …
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As the title says, I've got a new job.
But it's not really that exciting a switch, sorry :)
As of mid-August sometime, I will officially switch my appointment from 2/3 Computer Science and Engineering / 1/3 Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, to 2/3 Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 1/3 …
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(With very little apology whatsoever to Geoffrey North.)
The airplane age, in particular the advent of large, well-attended conferences, has created a brave new world of broadcasting instant criticism of scientific papers, for good or ill.
I think there is a clear "good" side, illustrated by cases where papers making …
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