This is the second of my two posts intended to discuss some basic statistical concepts as they pertain to my experiences in academia (I'm sure that I'll talk about other statistically related concepts in the future, but two topics were on my mind at...

This is the first in a couple of brief posts I've had on my mind about the subject of statistics-as-applied-to-research. I could have combined them into a single post, but having spent a few years in the blog-o-sphere, I've come to realize that most...

With the exception of the weekend involving an awesome midnight movie and some indoor rock-climbing with friends, last week was pretty shite. We discovered mites in one of our lab fly incubators, which threw the lab into automatic 'code red' lock-down...

I've claimed a couple of times on this blog that I don't understand a lot of the media here in the States. I guess that's only partially true. I understand the 'logic' behind the talking heads and opinion-based 'news' - that is to say, the value in...

The difficulty associated with balancing work and life when doing a postdoc is notorious. One tends to spend so much time working and/or thinking about work, that simple chores tend to pile up unfinished. I certainly don't think that I'm working too...