In the light of the new Nobel Prize nomination of Svante Pääbo it is nice to watch these youtube titles. The first one is from PBS, and offers a nice summary without too much scientific jargon or baggage. The next title is presented by Svante Pääbo that was the presentation that I saw at the… Read More »
Chateaubriand Fellowship The Chateaubriand Fellowship allows PhD students registered in an American university the opportunity to spend 4–9 months in France. The fellowship aims to initiate or reinforce collaborations or join projects between French and American research teams. US citizenship is not required (see eligibility and guidelines.) Summary French Government funded Chateaubriand STEM Fellowship available… Read More »
Engineer/Comedian Don McMillan has a YouTube Channel with a lot of fun videos, many of them making fun of how data, science, statistics, physics, etc. is misused by people or bad journalism. Here is one example with statistics: Embedded jokes with “supporting” journal pages: Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 25… Read More »
A webinar from “The Scientist“ Announcement and recording of event: A-Picture-is-Worth-a-Thousand-Words-Making-Science-More-Engaging About this webinar: Given that humans are by nature visual animals, most people are familiar with the concept of visual communication. However, while writing their articles and giving presentations, scientists frequently overlook aesthetic appeal because they believe it to be irrelevant or because they… Read More »
Virusworld was started as an anonymous FTP site in 1993 to distribute virus images I created from X-ray crystallography data, primarily for teaching. After 29 years the site has been retired, in part due to change of web server. I wrote a page about this elsewhere, but here is the summary below: Summary VirusWorld was… Read More »
A new spin-off company from the University of Wisconsin-Madison proposes a new interface for data analysis based on Guided English Language© (GEL) to command Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning methods via “utterances” i.e. English-like phrases easier to write than code whether R, python, SQL, or other traditional tools. The web site is at datachat.ai The… Read More »
The power of Story telling Scientists often are so deep into their work that they forget to announce the importance of their discovery or their current research to the World! This new (Zoom) online course is meant to help scientists better communicate: 2022 Summer Zoom Course. Here is the content of the course announcement: Effective… Read More »
In 1984 the Macintosh arrived with the amazing MacWrite and MacPaint programs. But at that time it was all in black and white. Later, Windows also had a Paint program. If you feel nostalgic about these programs, there is a (color) version Microsoft Paint online: jspaint.app
Just found this interesting set of “semester-biology ” (bio)informatics courses, from the original data carpentry site: Web rendered: https://datacarpentry.org/semester-biology/ GitHub: https://github.com/datacarpentry/semester-biology Derived works: Data Science for Biologists at Virginia Commonwealth University Data Science for Agriculture at Oklahoma State University Data Visualization for Plant Pathologists at the University of Florida Data Science for SAFS at the University of… Read More »
Last month I wrote a blog on my Biochemistry Blog about computing the number of residues within an alpha helix. This was in relation to a project concerning predicting a “coiled-coil” structure. It was more complicated than I thought. The link to the original article is here: Computing residues per turn in an alpha helix… Read More »