Thoughts on age in science…
I saw a twitter discussion last year from a young Professor in the USA who was saying something along the lines of “why do people not realise I am a Professor?” I think she was about 30 years old....
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Publishing Research… Part 2
Sales and Marketing in Research: About being a “Booth Babe”, Performing Arts and Science I wrote Part 1 over a year ago! It highlighted one example, where in my (completely unbiased ) view, four...
View ArticleWelcome to the new home for my blog
This is a copy of the posts that are on wordpress.com. All new posts will be here on geoffbarton.org from now on! The old site won’t be updated any more…
View ArticleSave Civilisation – the planet will be fine
Here’s a cheery little post for a Sunday evening! We often hear people talking about what we can do to “save the planet”. Really though, what is meant is “Save Civilisation”. If the nations of the...
View ArticleThe Fragility of our Civilisation’s Knowledge…
In my more pessimistic moments, I consider it likely that, driven by climate change and the inevitable conflicts that will follow, our civilisation will collapse over the next 50-100 years. The...
View ArticleThoughts about the Scottish Referendum on breaking up the United Kingdom –...
Prologue I wrote this in Summer 2014 before the referendum on Scottish Independence that was held on 18th September that year. While it refers to Scotland leaving the UK, many of the arguments are...
View ArticleThoughts about Brexit and Scottish Independence – after the Conservative...
Introduction I live in Scotland and I’m strongly pro-EU and pro-UK, but the election result on Thursday and the now inevitability of the UK leaving the EU mean it is time I should re-evaluate my...
View ArticleWhat should you call your research group?
After studying really hard, getting a good B.Sc., flying high in your Ph.D. and as a postdoc, you have finally amassed enough research experience and scientific research publications to apply for...
View ArticleWhy “Validate Experimentally” is wrong. “Seeking Consistency” is right!
I hate the expression “Experimentally Validate…” or “Validate Experimentally…” particularly when applied to computational biology studies. There is an assumption in biological sciences that the only...
View ArticleFizzBuzz and Vectors
Another un-posted thing from a few years ago! I guess I figured we had already discussed on twitter so “what’s the point”. Still, nice to summarise with a few more words here… Chris Cole...
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