Two papers on the Haemonchus contortus genome just came out (Schwarz et al. and Laing et al.), and I'm an author on one of them (Schwarz et al.). H. contortus, or Haemonch (as I affectionately called it) is a nasty parasitic nematode that feasts on the mucosal blood of ruminants …
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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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