AI in the workplace vs. AI in education
Quoting Dan Willingham: Students should only use AI for things that they already know how to do well....
Datapalooza 2026: The Future of Work, Powered by Data and People
UVA’s flagship data science conference will be held at the School of Data Science Friday November 13. This year’s theme: The Future of Work, Powered by Data and People. Registration is fre...
Create a QR code for FREE using R
<p>R is a very versatile programming language and can do many graphical tasks with ease. Here, I demonstrate how to use R to generate QRcodes. These codes are useful for sharing hyperlinks in presenta...
September 2026 links
Thomas Jefferson, biosecurity, AI, creativity, peer review, academic life & discourse...
What Instrument Protocol Did I Actually Use?
Puttering around with some ideas for future experiments on our autonomous lab, I realized a potential software engineering gap that in my very hot take is ubiquitous in the industry. For complex inst...
What About BOB-Seq?
<a href="https://sculpta.bio/preprint">An interesting new approach to short read RNA-Seq library preparation </a>bobbed into view this week, using click chemistry to barcode samples before any enzymat...
My relationship with AI is changing
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?...
AI + Biosecurity in 4 minutes
I got four minutes on live TV news to take on an important but nuanced topic....
STcompare to identify spatially sexually dimorphic genes in mouse kidneys
We recently developed an R package to perform spatial differential expression analysis called STcompare. The details of the method can be found in our paper in Oxford Bioinformatics. In our paper, we ...
Sequence That Moldy Lanternfly!
Googling on some keywords from a social media post led to an interesting <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1903579116">PNAS article from 2019 on two fungi which can infect the spotted lan...