Showing posts with label bad ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad ideas. Show all posts
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Alpha diversity and beta diversity

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At today's journal club meeting, we discussed Alexander Pyron's opinion piece We don't need to save endangered species - extinc...
Friday, December 29, 2017

No, the blockchain does not actually appear to be useful for anything much

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Merry belated Christmas and a happy new year! For the following note that this is my personal opinion, which I present not as a professional...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Everything is about white male privilege, even writing advice it seems

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I read a headline saying Why the writing advice 'show, don't tell' is inherently political and thought, well, this should be go...
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Friday, August 25, 2017

Phylogenetic trees in XML format

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I recently had the extremely frustrating experience of having had to look into how phylogenetic trees are coded in XML format. To illustra...
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Thursday, April 21, 2016

The joys of single-character taxonomy

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Time for a little rant. Two days ago I tried to identify an Australian native Asteraceae. I already knew that it had to belong to one of ...
Friday, January 2, 2015

Believe me, you wouldn't want your five year old to breathe this either

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Trick question: what is this haze covering our suburb? (a) Fog. (b) Chemical warfare. (c) The toxic fumes resulting from a successful...
Monday, August 18, 2014

A metric of Twitter and blog hits for scientific articles

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On this blog I have sometimes mentioned , and complained about , the influence that the obsession with article citations and journal impac...
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