Already 12 days into 2020 and things are falling behind. I missed a Week 1 blog post, but am back with the regular Sunday blog post in a new, punchier, format. Longer posts will now be separate and linked to from the weekly posts, while topics that I return to will grow into subsections of the main website. Updates to come soon.
Things I wrote this week:
2019 Altmetric Top 100
I share my thoughts on the most shared scientific papers of 2019.
Things I read this week:
The Pac-Man rule at conferences; how to avoid excluding people by making it easier to join your conversations.
Nature: Boris asks for weirdos to hang out with him
The UK government appears to have a “cinematic” view of scientists.
Introduction to Data Science
Still working my way through this data science course, and starting to see how machine learning is an application of statistics through training some basic algorithms.
Apollo 11 (2019)
Despite being well aware of the success of the first mission to the moon, this was a compelling and immersive retelling. I found the interludes of heart rate data amusing.