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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So, I got this grant. And, um, it looks like khmer has a future, which means... so does my lab.
What is khmer?
khmer is my lab's software for doing various things to sequencing data, and is largely focused on providing good demo implementations of low-memory data structures …
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