This is a list of all blog posts ever posted, in reverse chronological order.
- 93. Fundamentals of Data Visualization (01/23/2018)
- 92. Move over Strunk and White: My all-time favorite books on writing (11/12/2017)
- 91. Springer's abusive licensing demands (10/16/2017)
- 90. Goodbye Joyplots (09/15/2017)
- 89. Do you have to publish papers to obtain a PhD? (01/06/2017)
- 88. How to reject a rejection (01/02/2017)
- 87. Reading and combining many tidy data files in R (06/13/2016)
- 86. The one time I failed to parasitize an established clinical researcher (01/24/2016)
- 85. When will that paper be ready? (12/28/2015)
- 84. Don’t use the passive voice? (12/19/2015)
- 83. Hiding journal names from your publication list stinks (12/08/2015)
- 82. Formatting figure captions and tables (11/24/2015)
- 81. The Google Scholar preprint bug redux (10/08/2015)
- 80. How to not mess up your bibliographies with Bibtex (10/02/2015)
- 79. Avoiding the official style (08/26/2015)
- 78. Goodbye Squarespace, Hello Github (08/06/2015)
- 77. Safety projects (07/01/2015)
- 76. cowplot R package now available on CRAN (06/04/2015)
- 75. Beyond bar and line graphs (04/29/2015)
- 74. PLOS ONE publishes analysis of grant writing costs and benefits (03/24/2015)
- 73. Teaching a new introductory class in computational biology and bioinformatics (02/04/2015)
- 72. What constitutes a citable scientific work? (01/02/2015)
- 71. Post-publication review of the PLOS ONE paper comparing MS Word and LaTeX: How not to compare document preparation (12/27/2014)
- 70. Perfectly smooth transition between fixed and variable positioning of HTML elements using CSS and Javascript (12/23/2014)
- 69. How to prepare an article for resubmission, Part II (12/18/2014)
- 68. Relationship between h index and total citations count (12/08/2014)
- 67. How Google Scholar discourages young scientists from posting preprints (12/02/2014)
- 66. How to prepare an article for resubmission (11/16/2014)
- 65. The Google Scholar preprint bug (11/01/2014)
- 64. Should peer-review be double-blind? (10/18/2014)
- 63. How to schedule a committee meeting (10/14/2014)
- 62. In defense of anonymous peer review (10/12/2014)
- 61. To grid or not to grid (10/07/2014)
- 60. R Markdown, the easiest and most elegant approach to writing about data analysis with R (10/04/2014)
- 59. A critique of Chatterjee et al., The Time Scale of Evolutionary Innovation, PLOS Comp. Biol. 2014. (09/24/2014)
- 58. A grammar of data manipulation (09/17/2014)
- 57. Double Jeopardy (09/13/2014)
- 56. Keep your data tidy, Part II (07/21/2014)
- 55. Keep your data tidy (07/20/2014)
- 54. Surviving the pre-tenure years at an R1 university (07/12/2014)
- 53. Eat more gluten? Maybe not. (07/11/2014)
- 52. Share your preliminary work with other people, even if you think it’s crap (07/08/2014)
- 51. How to develop a research question, Part II (06/18/2014)
- 50. How to develop a research question (06/15/2014)
- 49. Uri Alon on creativity and staying sane in science: “Yes and ...” (06/14/2014)
- 48. How to pick a thesis committee (01/26/2014)
- 47. 6 reasons to do your graduate work in the lab of a junior PI, and 6 reasons not to (01/25/2014)
- 46. Understanding the graduate-school interview or recruitment event (01/14/2014)
- 45. What does it take to be a computational biologist? (01/10/2014)
- 44. How glamour journals rose to prominence, and why they may not be needed anymore (01/04/2014)
- 43. The value of pre-publication peer review (12/21/2013)
- 42. Is there an avalanche of low-quality research, and if so, must we stop it? (12/21/2013)
- 41. Excess ambition—the eternal flaw of all PhD thesis proposals (12/07/2013)
- 40. No one reads your paper either (11/03/2013)
- 39. Weight doesn’t matter (10/30/2013)
- 38. Use fine-grained sectioning in your grant proposals (10/28/2013)
- 37. Ten simple rules for reproducible computational research (10/26/2013)
- 36. Giving effective presentations (10/20/2013)
- 35. What is the value of a mentor? (10/19/2013)
- 34. The critical need in a grant application (10/17/2013)
- 33. Which grants get funded at single-digit funding rates? (10/17/2013)
- 32. Virtual Books (10/13/2013)
- 31. To write well, learn how to read (10/08/2013)
- 30. Articles! (10/01/2013)
- 29. Why I lift weights (and so should you) (10/01/2013)
- 28. Mobile apps—the bane of the modern mobile web experience (09/29/2013)
- 27. How to choose the right lab for graduate school (09/29/2013)
- 26. Writing paragraphs that make sense—the topic and the stress position (09/26/2013)
- 25. A blog needs a catchy title (09/23/2013)
- 24. Silence your inner critic (09/22/2013)
- 23. It’s easier to write when you know what you want to say (09/18/2013)
- 22. Warm up before you write (09/16/2013)
- 21. Do we know anything about nutrition? (09/13/2013)
- 20. How good is good enough? (09/10/2013)
- 19. The axis labels are too damn small (09/10/2013)
- 18. Should you list on your cv a paper that is in review or in preparation? (09/10/2013)
- 17. From undergraduate to faculty member: Critical decision points in the academic career (09/06/2013)
- 16. A year without breakfast (09/04/2013)
- 15. A review of the therapeutic uses of very-low-carbohydrate (ketogenic) diets (09/01/2013)
- 14. My new job (09/01/2013)
- 13. Why graduate students get a reasonable deal—A response to the anonymous grad student in the Guardian (08/31/2013)
- 12. Is consumer software creating a new generation of computer illiterates? (08/30/2013)
- 11. Writing a scientific paper in four easy steps (08/29/2013)
- 10. When should you stop doing science and start writing a paper? (08/26/2013)
- 9. The great weight-loss mystery (08/25/2013)
- 8. How to approach professors by email (08/23/2013)
- 7. A call for lightning talks at scientific conferences (08/22/2013)
- 6. My gripes with prezi, and some suggestions for making good prezi presentations (08/21/2013)
- 5. Should you as a scientist be active on LinkedIn? (08/20/2013)
- 4. The emotional distress of being a new Twitter user (08/19/2013)
- 3. Engaging presentations and text-heavy slides (08/18/2013)
- 2. Common errors in statistical analyses (08/18/2013)
- 1. Why not write a book? (08/17/2013)