I had a great time at (my first) #ukscitweetup last night.
I promised some people some links to some of my favourite articles, things I have not blogged about before on the assumption that they were old hat.
The importance of stupidity in scientific research – I am not the only PhD student I know who had this blu-tacked to the wall above their desk.
Can a biologist fix a radio? Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis – I first came across this when I was looking for some references for the introduction to my undergraduate thesis, which applied a mathematical method to a biological problem. The article made me laugh out loud and has elicited the same response from other biologists working in bioinformatics or mathematical biology.
If you are a PhD student, a bioinformatician, neither, or both, I think you might like them.
Awesome, thanks Erika! And it was good to see you, too. It was a good evening.
Thanks for these, Erika! And it was great to finally meet you last night.
I had seen the first one, and also assumed everyone had seen it! (Richard must have seen it, I’m pretty sure it was a top paper in F1000 for a while in 2009.)
I’ve seen the second one linked, but never read it. (And still haven’t, because I’m only taking a 5 minute break now and I can’t read that fast.)
@Richard – thanks again for such a well-organised #ukscitweetup, it was a great evening.
@Lou – likewise, I hope you got home safely? Maybe we can have a non-London-centric tweetup at some point?
@Eva – the second one is worth reading, even though it is quite long, it is funny!
Many thanks for posting these Erika – and thanks for the beer!
‘well-organized’? laughs
But thank you.