Summary: let’s make manuscripts for review reviewer-friendly instead of atavist-editor-friendly. There are many things we carry on because of … let us call it “tradition” to avoid calling it by its proper name: “atavism.” Today I am finishing reviewing a manuscript, and I feel irritated again that the article has the figures last, by themselves,… [Read more…]
April 24, 2011
You gotta change your evil ways, baby, before I stop loving you! –Santana I have been pondering lately about education. Reason being that I have been asked to teach a second year course in the undergrad biology program (genetics). This mean teaching a large group of students. Now, I am not afraid at all of… [Read more…]
January 8, 2011
Yesterday we had a colleague visiting the University across the street from mine. I know her from a couple of conferences before the visit. Still, I asked to have a time slot to chat with her. We had a nice exchange abut projects and results, and were able to find knowledge that we could share… [Read more…]
October 7, 2010
Well, before I start I should say that I have not read the book whose title I paraphrased. So, to the purists out there: no need to point this out. But I do know it is about career choices and changes, and that is enough for me to play the metaphor. Just yesterday I was… [Read more…]
October 3, 2010
I am often tempted to convert this blog into a fontal attack against misinformation. Not just against the most obvious pseudosciences, such as denial of global warming, but also against one of the most insidious sources of pseudoscience and plain quackery: creationism. The level of dishonesty and in-your-face hypocrisy among certain “apologists” is beyond belief.… [Read more…]
October 1, 2010
I have presumed often that a great advantage of working with computers is that you can do your work from anywhere. As a computational biologist, this has given me the opportunity for working from home and still be programming the solution to one or another problem. Downloading databases, and such, while, for instance, putting my… [Read more…]
July 31, 2010
A little history of my chaotic encounters with the concept of entropy visiting physics, chemistry, structural biology, literature, pseudoscience, and Murphy's Law.
April 26, 2010
First post in Entropic Evolution. A blog with very personal comments on science written with the public in mind. Mostly in computational biology, even more closely to genomics and the sequencing revolution therein.
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