I am leaving my house at a painfully early hour tomorrow to go to Tempe, AZ for a workshop titled "Advancing Dairy Cattle Genetics: Genomics and Beyond" (program). The goal of the workshop ...
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A Zotero-based workflow for reading and annotating scientific articles
It's hard to imagine that you would be reading this blog if you don't know me, but just in case, I'm blind as a post. And I'm getting older. This presents me with something of a problem when it comes to the scientific literature, which will ...
read moreAn animal breeder goes to PAG XXII
As I write this, I'm sitting on a US Airways A320 en route to to San Diego to attend the Plant and Animal Genome XX11 meetings. I've only attended once before, and I'm still trying to get a feel for the whole thing. As an animal breeder ...
read moreWhat am I reading?
A colleague of mine recently asked me the question, what are you reading these days? Since several interesting papers have popped up in the last week or so, I thought I'd list some of them here, in no particular order. None of them are self-cites, I promise.
- Ralph and ...
A review of "Learning R" by Richard Cotton (O'Reilly Media)
In "Learning R", data scientist and statistical consultant Richie Cotton provides an introduction to the R system for statistical computing organized around a typical workflow for data analysis. I've used R casually for a few years, but as a self-taught user I hoped that "Learning R" would fill in ...
read moreMy totally epic hashtag fail
In September, I attended the 5th International Symposium on Animal Functional Genomics where I gave a talk on New applications of genomic technology in the US dairy industry and presented ...
read moreBuilding an online presence can be exhausting!
Earlier today, I looked at C. Titus Brown's slide deck about how scientists can build an enduring online research presence. As is often the case, he has lots of interesting things to say. Near the end of the presentation he suggested that you should start small and work your ...
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