Book review: Science Fictions. This weekend I finished reading the new… | by Mike Hearn | Mike’s blog
This weekend I finished reading the new book Science Fictions, by Stuart Ritchie. It’s about the replication crisis in science, the…| Medium
TL;DR: Projects are not entirely good or bad on their own. They have to match the person doing them: you! Be honest with yourself about what your strengths and passions are. Choose a project that is fundamentally aligned with those strengths. Do NOT choose a project that relies heavily on things you are not intrinsically motivated to do. You may be tempted to pick a project to shore up on weaknesses, but don’t. Any project will have aspects that will require you to work on your weaknesses, ...| RajLab
This weekend I finished reading the new book Science Fictions, by Stuart Ritchie. It’s about the replication crisis in science, the…| Medium
Long blog post hiatus, which is a story for another time. For now, I’m reporting from what was a very small conference on the Frontiers of Biophysics from Paros, a Greek island in the Aegean, organized by Steve Quake and Rob Phillips. The goals of the conference were two-fold:| RajLab
I was writing a couple grants recently, some with page limits and some with word limits. Which of course got me thinking about the differences in how to game these two constraints. If you have a word limit, you definitely don’t want to use up your limit on a bunch of little words, which might lead to a bit more long-wordiness. With the page limit, though, you spend endless time trying to use shorter words to get that one pesky paragraph one little line shorter (and hope the figures don’t ...| RajLab
Just read a nice blog post from Stephen Heard about replicability vs. robustness that I really agree with. Basically, the idea under discussion is how much effort we should devote to exactly repeating experiments (narrow robustness) vs. the more standard way of doing science, which is everyone does their own version to see whether the result holds more generally (broad robustness). In my particular niche of molecular biology, I think most (though definitely not all, you know who you are!) err...| RajLab
