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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Note: Yarden Katz (the author of MISO) sent me the e-mail below, and I asked him if I could post it as a guest-post on my blog. He said yes - so here it is! Feedback solicited.
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Hi Titus,
Hope all is well. A recent tweet you had about Ben Bolker's …
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I've been asked -- in several different contexts now -- whether not the openness of my lab has had any specific impact. I blog about active research; we develop our code in the open; we post papers to arXiv; we emphasize remixability; I'm pushing open data in consortia; and we are trying …
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At the "What to Teach Biologists about Computing" meeting (discussed here, a bit) we received a strong message from Our Dear MozSciLabLeader, Kaitlin Thaney. The message was this: if we want to maximize reuse and remixing of educational materials, we should explicitly license them under CC0. (See her talk and …
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I just finished reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, an excellent book about the HeLa cell line cultured from cancerous cells taken from Henrietta Lacks. In addition to raising some really interesting and astonishing questions about the appropriate (mis)use of patients' tissue samples, a section about George Gey …
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Why do I blog?
I've been blogging now for almost 8 years, since around when Grig Gheorghiu started the Southern California Python Interest Group. Since then I've gotten a PhD, taken a postdoc, had one child, started a faculty position, had another child, and basically gotten way, way busier. Why …
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For each of the last two summers, I've returned from co-teaching our Analyzing Next-Generation Sequencing Data course, slept for 48 hours straight, and then hunkered down and bunkered up to write grants. (To be clear, sometimes this bunkering up involves travelling out to California and sitting on my in-laws' beach …
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