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I started a group leader position (not tenured) since about 1 year ago in bioinformatics (UK). The trend only got worse since this article was written. It is particularly bad in bi…

I agree with the need for better visualization tools in biology. There is an interesting group/project started at UCSF and headed by Graham Johnson (www.grahamjlab.org/). Some of t…

Scientific publishers (as it stands) provide 3 services (publishing, filtering, accreditation) - these could be decoupled and that is what PLOS One, PeerJ and other folks working o…

It was tried and failed in the life sciences. Genome Biology and Nature tried to create pre-print servers but there was no adoption. You can still find Nature's server online (prec…

Protein folding is an interesting and computational challenging task. So challenging that some groups have sort of given up on it and move to other fields. Look up David Baker and …

I just got a group leader position in the UK (currently a postdoc in the bayarea) and I am paying some attention to these experiments in crowdfunding for academic projects. In almo…

I also disagree with a proliferation of micro self publishing without having an aggregation systems in place first. For the HN community it is obvious that the aggregation can be d…

I wanted to add a perspective from someone who comes from a European country (Portugal) and have been living in the California for the past 4 and half years. Forgive me for the gen…

I think the author of the post is completely underestimating how many different fields require some proficiency in managing data. I work in biology (genomics and proteomics) and I …

well, you can find a job in a bio related research lab as a programmer but you would earn (at least) 2/3 times more in a company.

You can consider just volunteering to do a project for a biology lab. You have the tools (quantitative thinking, programming, etc) but to work in biology you need to know about som…

Unfortunately, as far as I know there is very little useful phenotypic data along with these genomes to work with. I would rather have fewer genome sequences with better phenotypic…

Scientists still publish Elsevier because of the so called "impact factor" of some of these journals. As a young researcher currently looking for tenure-track positions in academia…