I started a group leader position (not tenured) since about 1 year ago in bioinformatics (UK). The trend only got worse since this article was written. It is particularly bad in biology but physics and chemistry are not…
I agree with the need for better visualization tools in biology. There is an interesting group/project started at UCSF and headed by Graham Johnson (www.grahamjlab.org/). Some of these tools are still closer to art than…
Scientific publishers (as it stands) provide 3 services (publishing, filtering, accreditation) - these could be decoupled and that is what PLOS One, PeerJ and other folks working on "alternative" metrics of evaluation…
It was tried and failed in the life sciences. Genome Biology and Nature tried to create pre-print servers but there was no adoption. You can still find Nature's server online (precedings.nature.com). Why have they…
Protein folding is an interesting and computational challenging task. So challenging that some groups have sort of given up on it and move to other fields. Look up David Baker and Rosetta for more info. This is just an…
I just got a group leader position in the UK (currently a postdoc in the bayarea) and I am paying some attention to these experiments in crowdfunding for academic projects. In almost all group leader or faculty…
I wanted to add a perspective from someone who comes from a European country (Portugal) and have been living in the California for the past 4 and half years. Forgive me for the generalizations but one thing that I…
I think the author of the post is completely underestimating how many different fields require some proficiency in managing data. I work in biology (genomics and proteomics) and I teach a summer course to biomed PhD…
well, you can find a job in a bio related research lab as a programmer but you would earn (at least) 2/3 times more in a company.
You can consider just volunteering to do a project for a biology lab. You have the tools (quantitative thinking, programming, etc) but to work in biology you need to know about some specific biology knowledge domain.…
Unfortunately, as far as I know there is very little useful phenotypic data along with these genomes to work with. I would rather have fewer genome sequences with better phenotypic information. Even with just 35 genome…
Scientists still publish Elsevier because of the so called "impact factor" of some of these journals. As a young researcher currently looking for tenure-track positions in academia I can tell you that it is still…
I started a group leader position (not tenured) since about 1 year ago in bioinformatics (UK). The trend only got worse since this article was written. It is particularly bad in biology but physics and chemistry are not…
I agree with the need for better visualization tools in biology. There is an interesting group/project started at UCSF and headed by Graham Johnson (www.grahamjlab.org/). Some of these tools are still closer to art than…
Scientific publishers (as it stands) provide 3 services (publishing, filtering, accreditation) - these could be decoupled and that is what PLOS One, PeerJ and other folks working on "alternative" metrics of evaluation…
It was tried and failed in the life sciences. Genome Biology and Nature tried to create pre-print servers but there was no adoption. You can still find Nature's server online (precedings.nature.com). Why have they…
Protein folding is an interesting and computational challenging task. So challenging that some groups have sort of given up on it and move to other fields. Look up David Baker and Rosetta for more info. This is just an…
I just got a group leader position in the UK (currently a postdoc in the bayarea) and I am paying some attention to these experiments in crowdfunding for academic projects. In almost all group leader or faculty…
I wanted to add a perspective from someone who comes from a European country (Portugal) and have been living in the California for the past 4 and half years. Forgive me for the generalizations but one thing that I…
I think the author of the post is completely underestimating how many different fields require some proficiency in managing data. I work in biology (genomics and proteomics) and I teach a summer course to biomed PhD…
well, you can find a job in a bio related research lab as a programmer but you would earn (at least) 2/3 times more in a company.
You can consider just volunteering to do a project for a biology lab. You have the tools (quantitative thinking, programming, etc) but to work in biology you need to know about some specific biology knowledge domain.…
Unfortunately, as far as I know there is very little useful phenotypic data along with these genomes to work with. I would rather have fewer genome sequences with better phenotypic information. Even with just 35 genome…
Scientists still publish Elsevier because of the so called "impact factor" of some of these journals. As a young researcher currently looking for tenure-track positions in academia I can tell you that it is still…