In today's Guardian newspaper geneticist Steve Jones has a short column replying to a 7 year old child who had asked "Will humans evolve into a new species?". Jones is known in the UK as the media's favourite geneticist and evolutionary biologist; he is a...
I've been thinking about sustainable and accessible archiving of bioinformatics software, I'm pretty scandalized at the current state of affairs, and had a bit of a complain about it before. I thought I'd post some links to other people's ideas and talk a bit about the...
I just noticed that an old publication of mine has a typo in the title on the Nature website "Animal mitochondrial DMA recombination", anyone want to guess what the error is? Web of Science has the correct title, Pubmed has the correct title, and it...
There have been several obituaries for Horace Judson recently [1][2], and today Larry Moran in an excellent Sandwalk blog post talked about the lack of knowledge of the history of their field by molecular biologists modern researchers are completely unaware of the history of their field....
I hope I'm going to submit my PhD student's first comparative genomics paper very soon. Three of us have written the manuscript collaboratively using Google Docs. GDocs is an online word processor and although I've used it quite a bit before, this is the first...
I’ve heard a number of people saying anonymous peer review is broken and we need a different publishing model. One where reviewers cannot hide behind their anonymity. I don’t think it is broken. Actually I think anonymity is essential, one of the few things that...
OK, so I was going to write about bioinformatics and phylogenetics in this blog, and here is my second post already that ignores both!I just read a paper testing the relationship between beer consumption and publication output of ecologists in the Czech Republic. Apparently...
Well no, I guess they're not. But I've been thinking about whether some types of book publishing are even worthwhile. So, what's my complaint? Well, in many cases I don't see why either publishers or paper books are of any use. I think researchers can...
