#scidata16: Work reproducibly for the sake of your career
Publishing Better Science through Beter Data writing competition Jonathan Page … Read more
The era of big data is coming: Scientists need to step out of their comfort zone
On my first day as a new PhD student, freshly awarded molecular genetics degree in hand, I was sat down at a laptop with an unfamiliar operating system and was encouraged to explore some data using arr. What sounded like pirate speak turned out to be R, a statistical programming language. Yep – for my PhD I swapped pipettes for programming, dilutions for data and spectrophotometers for statistics. Others experienced the opposite, entering the world of biology from a computer science background. Read more
#scidata16: Publishing Better Science through Better Data: Writing competition
After a very successful event last year, we are again looking for five budding science writers to help with news coverage of this year’s Publishing Better Science through Better Data event. Read more
