Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process. A lawyer who represents U. researchers in misconduct cases, who describes some nuances many may not realize about these situations.

A recent article about the publishing industry confuses the various business segments and offers prescriptions that are largely irrelevant to the task of running a publishing enterprise.

Tia Marta here with important news something I was planning to share with you next. Here it is our staghorn cholla cacti flowered.

Thoughts on gradschool, science, and academic life. An unfortunate sweet tooth for sensationalism. When I taught a science for non-science majors at Cornell University, my favorite lecture was on science in the popular media. They do it because it sells. How to Lie With Statistics, by Daryl Huff.

Learning notes on Programming and Bioinformatics. 2014 blogging review by WordPress! January 16, 2015. com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 12,000. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Click here to see the complete report.

There is grandeur in this view of life. Last year in Marseille and the EBM18 book. I post this from the European Society for Evolutionary Biology conference in Lausanne. If you happen to be here, you can see me talk about signatures of selection in feralisation in Symposium 20 on Tuesday afternoon.