I’d like to say thank you to everyone who has commented on my blog over the last year, and a big thank you to the people at Nature who helped get me set up, in particular Lou and Mat and I’m sure a lot of other people who have been working behind the scenes. But, It’s time for me to leave. I’ve been struggling with this decision for months, having...

Two days in a row, I’m going to be blogging in response to an editorial, however, today’s post is on a completely different topic: The changing face of media. Introduction: There’s a very brief editorial by Dr Royce Murray in the Analytical Chemistry journal, called Science Blogs and Caveat Emptor , in which the author generally claims blogs are no...

Ok, I’m back. Yes, I’ve been busy. (You can read that as 2 weddings, one of them being my own, as well as the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday, a family emergency, and several major projects all on the go – and a partridge in a pear tree.) But, I’m finally ready to return to blogging. I have no lack of topics to blog about. Actually, what I wanted...

Yes, I’m a sucker for alpha software, and in the case of diaspora, pre-alpha, it seems. That’s nothing new to me: my laptop runs a version of Ubuntu that hasn’t officially been released yet, so yes, I am used to odd bugs and filing the occasional bug report. Someone has to do it, and I enjoy seeing new features roll out on a daily (hourly?) basis....

  Ok, here it is: Micro-arrays are dead. D – E – A – D…. Dead. Dead as a doornail… dead like the fish head someone tossed into the compost bin last weekend, despite the fact that compost won’t be picked up till this Tuesday. Now, can we move on? There is research waiting to be done.   Well, alright, I guess I can’t move on just quite yet. There’s...

  Earlier this week, I got an email from a colleague from my days back at “the start-up” to let me know that the first patent that we’d applied for had been granted. Attached to the email was a pdf document of the certificate, and the bright shiny front page of the patent, looking all official, with my name on it. Fejes et al, always seems so pretty...