Mailund on the Internet

With the whole RSI stuff, I’ve been away from the blog since August. So long, really, that I hardly think about blogging any more. So I figure that if I don’t get started again soon, I probably never will. So here’s the first post in a long while.

It’s also the first post I’ve written on an iPad, so let’s see how that goes.

So much has happened while I’ve been away from the blog that I would have loved to write about, but by now it would just seem silly to rehash old news. But I am sure that there will soon be interesting news to write about.

I expect a slow start now that I try to get back. I’m still in physiotherapy and far from recovered, so I have to keep my computer time pretty short, but let’s see how it goes.

From the incoming links I just found that I was listed on the Top 15 Bioinformatics Blogs in 2010 at Knowledge beyond words.

Cool, but perhaps not that deserving since I basically haven’t blogged since the fall last year.  But I’ll get right on it, as soon as I have something interesting to share…

That being said, I think all of the (other) blogs listed there are worth following.  I was already reading most of them, but five were new to me.  After scanning through them quickly, I have added those five to my RSS reader.

Blogging

• How blogging can hurt your career as a scientist… (On becoming a domestic and laboratory goddess)
• Nature on conference blogging (John Hawks)
• European publishes want a law to control online news access (Ars Technica)
• This is my job (Uncertain principles)

Psychology

• The bigger the ego, the harder the fall (Not exactly rocket science)

Web publishing

• The hazy future of web typography (Ars Technica)
• Posting correctly-aligned LaTeX formulae in a WordPress blog (Eli Bendersky)

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Due to exams and such, I didn’t put up my list last week, so here you have it for the last two…

Astronomy and cosmology

• Kicking a planet out of the Solar System… physically (Ars Technica)
• Exploring a universe where nothing isn’t empty (Ars Technica)

Blogging

• Nature News article on conference blogging (Genetic Future)
• Creating a “blog-safe” icon for conference presentations: suggestions? (Genetic Future)
• Blogging and reporting from meetings (John Hawks)
• Conference blogging continued (Johnn Hawks)

Epidemiology

• Vaccine refuseniks are free-riders (Adventures in Ethics and Science)
• The Associated Press on a roll: Actual articles on cancer quackery (Respectful Insolence)
• Origins of the swine flu pandemic (Not Exactly Rocket Science)
• Swine flu: pandemic pre-history (Effect Measure)

Genomics

• The Double Standard of Genomic Data Release and the Role of Incentives (Mike the Mad Biologist)
• Illumina launches personal genome sequencing service for $48,000 (Genetic Future)
• Spatial variation and near-fixed selected alleles (John Hawks)
• The world’s most annotated man (Genetic Future)

Intellectual Property

• Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim “$100M+” RIAA “stole” (Ars Technica)

Programming

• High scale design patterns (missing) in the life sciences (bbgm)
• Safely using destructors in Python (Eli Bendersky)
• Small HPC (Linux Magazine)
• Remember your in operator (California Dreams)
• Why Parrot is important (Linux Magazine)
• Partitioning with Python (Word Aligned)

Research Life

• Open access publisher accepts nonsense manuscript for dollars (The Scholarly Kitchen)
• The broken grant review system (John Hawks)

Statistics

• How much of a threat are meteors to aviation? (Revolutions)
• The sample size is huge, so a p-value of 0.007 is not that impressive (Statistical Modeling)

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Another week, another list…

Blogging

• Defining the journalism vs. blogging debate, with a science reporting angle (A Blog around the Clock)

DeCODE

• A train wreck in slow motion: DeCODE Genetics slides toward bankruptcy (Genetic Future)
• DeCODE Genetics CEO: “We’re in a tough spot” (Genetic Future)

Evolution

• “Hundreds of natural selection studies could be wrong” (John Hawks)
• Darwin and the African apes (Laelaps)

Open science

• Conscious modularity and scaling open collaboration (Michael Nielsen)

Phylogenetic inference

• When MrBayes fails… (Dechronoization)

Programming

• The ugly American programmer (Coding Horror)
• Testing and the scientist-programmer (Programming for Scientists)

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