This week in the blogs
Sunday, March 1st, 2009It is Sunday, so time for my list of blog posts I enjoyed during the week. Here we go…
Blogging
- It’s good to blog (Nature)
- Nature: Don’t worry, be bloggy (John Hawks)
- Go ‘wan, you know you want to. Blog that is. (DrugMonkey)
- So, you like blogosphere discussion, do you Nature? (DrugMonkey)
Chimps
- How strong is a chimpanzee? (Slate / John Hawks)
- Muscle markings, chimpanzees, and Neanderthals (John Hawks)
- Marta’s (good) questions, Greg’s (oft’ lame) answers: Bonobos? (Greg Laden)
Genetics
- Estonians are not like Finns (Gene Expression)
Linguistics
- Decay processes of language lexicons (John Hawks)
Programming
- The bad apple: group poison (Coding Horror)
- Who’s your coding buddy? (Coding Horror)
- Paying down your technical debt (Coding Horror)
Research life
- Good writing needs editing (Uncertain principles)
- Zotero 1.5 Beta and more (The quantum pontiff)
- Breaking out of “the last bastion of indentured servitude” (I was lost but now I live here)
- Not dead, overloaded (Byte size biology)
Statistics
- Why I don’t like so-called Bayesian hypothesis testing (Statistical modeling)
Teaching / popularisation of science
- Some displays of evolutionary trees are much better than others (Statistical modeling)
- Danish science journalism meeting to focus on framing (Framing science)
- Problems with pacing in a large lecture course (ScienceWomen)
- On Sciencewoman’s teaching experience and pacing of lectures (Neurotopia v 2.0)
The IT of NGS
- 1000 human genomes ! How !#@$* do you manage 1000 genomes ??! (Yokofakun)
- Three themese from AGBT and ABRF Part III: The IT problem (Finchtalk)
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