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advert said: "Titus will talk about the pros and cons of graduate school, how to choose if graduate school is a good fit for you, and tips for applying to graduate school"

see also:

https://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=GradSchoolOrHell

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Grad school is very dependent on advisor, dept; talk to current grad students beforehand!

Mike, great post - and I think the bit at the end is in some ways the most important. There are other ways to go about this, too; I have made the decision to openly sign my paper peer reviews and this has led me to be both more careful and more polite in my reviews, to the point where I feel comfortable posting them publicly once the paper is out.

Two additional thoughts --

I absolutely don't want to see a centralized commenting system come into being for all sorts of reasons; I think we need something sensibly federated. To that end, you might be interested in Chris Lee's "selected papers" network idea, http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncom.2012.00001/abstract as a way to actually do pre-"pub" peer review in a minimally sensible way.

Second, there are annotation platforms like hypothes.is that I'd love to see applied to this general question of how to (technically) do post-pub peer review. See https://hypothes.is/. Any thoughts as to suitability?

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Genome 10k #G10K meeting - Erich Jarvis' suggestions for the future of G10K

Six suggestions for the future of G10K -- Erich Jarvis

  1. Make a more focused mission than just 10k species

  2. Sequence on species per genus, ~9.5k species

  3. Generate a vertebrate genera phylogenome tree

  4. Reclassify species based on genomic distances and speciation timing.

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Reproducibility workflow workshop at MSU - description

Seminar Topic: Reproducible Computational Analysis - How to start a new project

Time: March 24, 2015 from 9:00am- 12:00 noon
Location: Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg, Room 2245 Instructor: Dr. Titus Brown

Description

Computational science projects, from data analysis to modeling, can benefit dramatically from a little up-front investment in automation; starting off with version control and automated building of results will pay off in efficiency, agility, and both transparency and reproducibility of the results. However, most computational researchers have never been exposed to a completely automated analysis pipeline. I will demonstrate the process of initiating a new project, building a few initial scripts, and automating the generation of results, as well as building some graphs. While the topic will be from my own research in bioinformatics, the overall approach should apply to anyone doing data analysis or simulations.

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Michael Barton quote @Bioinformatics during #BaltiandBioinformatics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84359240&x-yt-ts=1421782837&feature=player_embedded&v=ZACVcJt0oJA#t=7303
Kai Blin: If we containerize all these things won’t it just encourage
worse software development practices; right now developers still need
to consider someone other than themselves installing the software.
Michael Barton:
“It’s a good point. Ultimately, though, if I can get a container, and
it works, and I know it will work, do you care how well it was
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Hi Jonathan,
I noticed the omission as well! I do have some sympathy with people who don't know how to deal with preprints, but the almost complete omission of any discussion of your published, peer-reviewed paper is quite a bit stranger. Regardless, I think the best thing for science would have been for them to embrace the preprint, discuss it in some detail, and compare and contrast their results with yours. The other thought I have is this: do people who argue for precedence really think that this kind of interaction is going to lead in positive directions for their future work? It seems a bit shortsighted.
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Canberra reproducibility talk
Title: Openness and reproducibility in computational science: tools,
approaches, and thought patterns.
Oct 17, NICTA, Canberra.
Abstract:
Computational reproducibility should be relatively straightforward to achieve
at the time of publication, but experience has shown that most research
groups struggle with it. I will discuss the increasingly rich (and