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James D. Watson, cantankerous Nobel prize winner, proves that no cow is too sacred. Even Lord Jim couldn’t withstand the furore over his latest round of bigoted comments in the Sunday Times magazine on Oct 14th:He says that he is inherently gloomy about...
I have just noticed that the fish sauce in my kitchen cabinet is “first press” and “extra virgin”. wtF?...
A hostile exchange rate is a budget’s worst enemy.These days, if you count in US dollars, this implies that only the most impoverished of third world countries are desirable conference destinations. I have barely managed to secure accommodation in the...
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linked to by 2Where does the time go? One minute I’ve just started a post-doc, the next it’s the end of the year: leaves are gone, grants are due, papers are being drafted, and everyone around me seems to be fixated with end-of-year pagan rituals warding off...
linked to by 1How many times do incarnations of a paper need to be rejected (outright!) before you lose hope in it? This one has been doing the rounds for >3 years in 5+ versions....
The latest installment of the PLoS Computational Biology “10 Rules” series focuses on collaboration. The rules deal primarily with people skills, rather than explicit guidelines for collaborations. One thing that strikes me is that they are written...
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Recently, PLoS Computational Biology published an editorial entitled “Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration”. Chris at Fourth Floor Studio wrote a comment on that piece, adding two more rules to the list. The topic of scientific collaborations...
Bio::Blogs #8 Editorial musingsWelcome to the eight edition of the bioinformatics blog journal Bio::Blogs. The archive from previous months can be found at bioblogs.wordpress.com. When this carnival was started, more than eight months ago, it had the primary...