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Best pics of 2013
I should really write a little note for each of these, but I have a thesis to write… so, maybe I’ll come back to this post in March? Anyway, here are my best / favourite (not necessarily the same...
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Just kidding guys
Reading comments on the internet makes me sad, so I made this to cheer myself up. Click to enlarge for full glory ps this guy sounds like a great scientist pps my sincere apologies to whoever took the...
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Marlene Zuk and her famously shy crickets
We managed to pull off a bit of a coup at Breaking Bio (again!), having snagged Professor Marlene Zuk to chat with us about her popular science writing, research on rapid evolution, and – of course –...
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Understanding 3-way interactions between continuous variables
A recurrent problem I’ve found when analysing my data is that of trying to interpret 3-way interactions in multiple regression models. As always, the mantra of PLOT YOUR DATA* holds true: ggplot2 is...
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Push notifications in R!
Despite its great litany of flaws, I love R. I love it super-hard. One of the best things about it is that people are always making weird packages that solve your problems; one of the annoying things...
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Statistics workshop
A quick note here to say that I shall be helping my PhD supervisor, Luc Bussière, teach a week-long workshop entitled ‘Advancing in R’ at the SCENE field station (on the bonny, bonny banks of Loch...
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Understanding 3-way interactions between continuous and categorical...
It can be pretty tricky to interpret the results of statistical analysis sometimes, and particularly so when just gazing at a table of regression coefficients that include multiple interactions. I...
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From the shadows, they come.
Drawn by the scent of their hapless prey. Their victims are powerless to defend themselves… Sweet, delicate flesh is ripped and torn as attacks come from all sides… They shiver with feverish...
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Totally meaningful lists and stuff
Science magazine, ‘inspired’ by Neil Hall’s (borderline?) offensive ‘Kardashian-index’ paper (which has been torn apart by far better people than me, so I’ll just direct you here), has just published a...
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Facing the facts: delighting in dragonflies
My ‘friend’ Adam Hayward is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. His research involves the study of ageing, for which he typically uses detailed life history records from long-term...
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Twisted wings, twisted sex
Some time ago, I wrote a post on here. It was reasonably popular, but I deleted it for foolish reasons. However, I no longer care about those reasons, so now I’ve edited it slightly and it’s back!...
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My 2014, in pictures (and also words)
2014 is drawing to a close; it’s been a weird year, and I didn’t realise until now quite how much I’ve neglected writing posts on here. I have been spending more time on photography, although you will...
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New paper, new job, stuff like that
Things have been pretty slow on the updating side (yet again), but I have been busy with THINGS and also STUFF! I have just had my first research paper (snappily titled ‘Sex differences in the effects...
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Understanding 3-way interactions between continuous and categorical...
I posted recently (well… not that recently, now that I remember that time is linear) about how to visualise 3-way interactions between continuous and categorical variables (using 1 continuous and 2...
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Level up: professional photography status achieved!
Thanks to the fine work of Cambridge’s Prof. Rebecca Kilner and her colleagues, in addition to her giving me access to her lab next year to photograph her beetles, today I have a photograph appearing...
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Outreach: starts with Real Science, ends in a #HumpOff
I am coming to the end of my week-long tenure at @RealScientists – a rotational twitter account that brings a different scientist to its readers every week. This week, I started with the best of...
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My real science (Day 1)
In my last post, I gave a quick overview of my week curating the @realscientists twitter feed, but focused – unsurprisingly – on the delights of the ‘humpoff’ and its ensuring press coverage! As a new...
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Interview on the Career 100 podcast
I was interviewed recently for an episode of the Career 100 podcast, part of the College Funding Resource. The podcast is aimed at people trying to decide on a college course, and introduces them to...
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Of carts and horses
I have been working on a post for some time now, in which I was planning to use web-scraping in R to gather sports-related data from webpages and then run some fancy analysis on it. But when I say...
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Applying the story circle to academic writing
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we’d naturally do. I’m a big fan of the work of Dan Harmon, writer of amazing...
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