Plot the data!

A great demonstration of why we need to plot the data and never trust statistics tables! https://t.co/JyUb57v0or pic.twitter.com/hsivGZdpZ1 — Taha Yasseri (@TahaYasseri) May 1, 2017 Discovered that it’s hard to find my own retweets, so I’m going to try to post when I want to save one.

More on cocktail thermodynamics

Debby found this post from Dave Arnold that resembles what I discussed in the last post. Shorter version: I’m probably wrong about the ice being close enough to thermal equilibrium for government work, but the explanation of what is going on isn’t quite the way I recall Weitz explaining it. And my old Intro Bio […]

GMO tech makes the Impossible Burger possible

… or at least economically practical. Earlier this week I noticed a retweet of this event in my twitter feed: so much fun being at groundbreaking for @ImpossibleFoods 1,000,000 lbs/mo burger factory in Oakland pic.twitter.com/Mo1Gd8uXu4 — Michael Eisen (@SenatorPhD) March 23, 2017 Coincidentally, someone else posted this video about the Impossible Burger (which I hadn’t […]

Analogy-creep in hyping science

Via Instapundit by way of Popular Mechanics, I just saw this press release from UW-Madison hyping a new paper studying the host-virus interactome between humans and influenza. In a comprehensive new study published today in the journal Cell Host and Microbe, the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Yoshihiro Kawaoka and a team of researchers have set the stage for an entirely different approach. […]

Learning Artemis

For editing genome annotations, many of my colleagues use Artemis while others use Apollo. For my own use, I’ve usually just made scripts that generate GFF and visualized that in Gbrowse, Jbrowse, or IGV. For the genomics class I co-teach, we’ve had students edit GFF in a text editor (emacs!) and display it in IGV. […]

Ebola transmission

I did some reading on this topic a week ago, and this has been sitting in my drafts for about a week. In the last post I noted that NEJM recently stated Health care professionals treating patients with this illness have learned that transmission arises from contact with bodily fluids of a person who is […]

NEJM on Ebola

The New England Journal of Medicine has an Editorial criticizing the quarantines in NJ and other states. Health care professionals treating patients with this illness have learned that transmission arises from contact with bodily fluids of a person who is symptomatic — that is, has a fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and malaise. We have very strong […]