<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Scientific B-sides</title>
	<atom:link href="http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>The flipside of the A-side: bonus after-hour ramblings on life, the universe and everything</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 17:04:56 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='scientificbsides.wordpress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/982ccbb0bdadd75335ad94e3173bc76d?s=96&#038;d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>Scientific B-sides</title>
		<link>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/osd.xml" title="Scientific B-sides" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>The cancer of Henrietta Lacks: more telomerase, less angels please!</title>
		<link>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/the-cancer-of-henrietta-lacks-more-telomerase-less-angels-please/</link>
		<comments>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/the-cancer-of-henrietta-lacks-more-telomerase-less-angels-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian Markowetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HeLa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henrietta Lacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Skloot]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/?p=3980</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the clamor over sequencing the HeLa genome, Rebecca Skloot and her book &#8216;The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks&#8216; are making headlines again. I had been very impressed when I read it first (as you can see from my review in early 2012), but I am less enthusiastic now that I had some time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scientificbsides.wordpress.com&#038;blog=28818718&#038;post=3980&#038;subd=scientificbsides&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/the-cancer-of-henrietta-lacks-more-telomerase-less-angels-please/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0403a8333014922d32d6dd0df09e269f?s=96&#38;d=retro&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">florianmarkowetz</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://scientificbsides.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/telomerase.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">telomerase</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Ah &#8230; look at that cell body!</title>
		<link>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/ah-look-at-that-cell-body/</link>
		<comments>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/ah-look-at-that-cell-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian Markowetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/?p=3994</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;I&#8217;m a Stem Cell and I Know It&#8217; from the Frye lab at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. Filed under: Science Tagged: music<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scientificbsides.wordpress.com&#038;blog=28818718&#038;post=3994&#038;subd=scientificbsides&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/ah-look-at-that-cell-body/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0403a8333014922d32d6dd0df09e269f?s=96&#38;d=retro&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">florianmarkowetz</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Is the publication of the HeLa genome an invasion of the privacy of Lacks’ living relatives?</title>
		<link>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/is-the-publication-of-the-hela-genome-an-invasion-of-the-privacy-of-lacks-living-relatives/</link>
		<comments>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/is-the-publication-of-the-hela-genome-an-invasion-of-the-privacy-of-lacks-living-relatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian Markowetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HeLa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henrietta Lacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Skloot]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/?p=3972</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike Eisen has joined the discussion about the HeLa genome: Skloot’s piece glides from the issue of how to retroactively get Henrietta’s permission to experiment with and publish about her cells to the seemingly related  issue of whether publication of the HeLa cell genome is an invasion of the privacy of Lacks’ living relatives. (&#8230;) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scientificbsides.wordpress.com&#038;blog=28818718&#038;post=3972&#038;subd=scientificbsides&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/is-the-publication-of-the-hela-genome-an-invasion-of-the-privacy-of-lacks-living-relatives/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0403a8333014922d32d6dd0df09e269f?s=96&#38;d=retro&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">florianmarkowetz</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://scientificbsides.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/helafacenyt.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">HeLaFaceNYT</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>How to ask for a recommendation letter &#8211; 10 tips</title>
		<link>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/how-to-ask-for-a-recommendation-letter-10-tips/</link>
		<comments>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/how-to-ask-for-a-recommendation-letter-10-tips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian Markowetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P2P]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/?p=3967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Arthropod Ecology wrote a great post on  Ten tips when asking for a letter of recommendation. What I would add: Be prepared to write a draft yourself! All advisors are busy and for them it&#8217;s a lot of help if you draft your own letter. This is harder than it sounds. Most of us instinctively [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scientificbsides.wordpress.com&#038;blog=28818718&#038;post=3967&#038;subd=scientificbsides&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/how-to-ask-for-a-recommendation-letter-10-tips/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0403a8333014922d32d6dd0df09e269f?s=96&#38;d=retro&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">florianmarkowetz</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel</title>
		<link>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-the-sequel/</link>
		<comments>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-the-sequel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian Markowetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HeLa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henrietta Lacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Skloot]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/?p=3939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 11th scientists at EMBL announced that sequencing of HeLa cells revealed havoc in biology’s most-used human cell line. Their sequence analysis reveals how the HeLa genome is different to the Human Genome Project reference. Their results are published in G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. Since HeLa cells are indeed one of biology&#8217;s most-used human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scientificbsides.wordpress.com&#038;blog=28818718&#038;post=3939&#038;subd=scientificbsides&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks-the-sequel/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0403a8333014922d32d6dd0df09e269f?s=96&#38;d=retro&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">florianmarkowetz</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://scientificbsides.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/helafacenyt.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">HeLaFaceNYT</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Maximal Information Coefficient &#8211; just a messed-up estimate of mutual information?</title>
		<link>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/maximal-information-coefficient-just-a-messed-up-estimate-of-mutual-information/</link>
		<comments>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/maximal-information-coefficient-just-a-messed-up-estimate-of-mutual-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian Markowetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[correlations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mutual information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/?p=3916</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Theory papers almost never make it into top journals and this is why I have blogged about the paper &#8216;Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets&#8217; in Science by Reshef et al before (here and here). The reception in the statistics community was mixed and while Terry Speed seemed to love it, Rob Tibshirani started [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scientificbsides.wordpress.com&#038;blog=28818718&#038;post=3916&#038;subd=scientificbsides&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/maximal-information-coefficient-just-a-messed-up-estimate-of-mutual-information/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0403a8333014922d32d6dd0df09e269f?s=96&#38;d=retro&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">florianmarkowetz</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://scientificbsides.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/correlation2.png" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">correlation</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Pound for pound she is the best philosopher in the department</title>
		<link>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/pound-for-pound-she-is-the-best-philosopher-in-the-department/</link>
		<comments>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/pound-for-pound-she-is-the-best-philosopher-in-the-department/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian Markowetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job market]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/?p=3913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Wolff takes a look at academic references in the Guardian. Some examples are really funny: &#8220;Pound for pound she is the best philosopher in the department.&#8221; What can that mean? She&#8217;s not very good, but on the other hand she is really small? He concludes: [T]he value we get from academic references is minuscule [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scientificbsides.wordpress.com&#038;blog=28818718&#038;post=3913&#038;subd=scientificbsides&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/pound-for-pound-she-is-the-best-philosopher-in-the-department/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0403a8333014922d32d6dd0df09e269f?s=96&#38;d=retro&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">florianmarkowetz</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Don&#8217;t wear your new shoes (yet)</title>
		<link>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/dont-wear-your-new-shoes-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/dont-wear-your-new-shoes-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian Markowetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P2P]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/?p=3906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have blogged about the ISMB workshop &#8220;From Postdoc to PI&#8221; before (here and here) and now the organizers published a paper about it in PLoS Comp Bio: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Wear Your New Shoes (Yet): Taking the Right Steps to Become a Successful Principal Investigator&#8221; Nice! Florian Filed under: Science Tagged: job market, P2P<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scientificbsides.wordpress.com&#038;blog=28818718&#038;post=3906&#038;subd=scientificbsides&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/dont-wear-your-new-shoes-yet/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0403a8333014922d32d6dd0df09e269f?s=96&#38;d=retro&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">florianmarkowetz</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>An embargo on marginal improvements</title>
		<link>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/an-embargo-on-marginal-improvements/</link>
		<comments>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/an-embargo-on-marginal-improvements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian Markowetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[methods versus insights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/?p=3894</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an excellent discussion of an excellent post on marginal improvements over at biomickwatson. He calls for an embargo on short read alignment tools, because there now already 70+ of them out there. I can’t help but say – I’m sorry, but isn’t this a waste of time, both yours and mine? I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scientificbsides.wordpress.com&#038;blog=28818718&#038;post=3894&#038;subd=scientificbsides&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/an-embargo-on-marginal-improvements/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0403a8333014922d32d6dd0df09e269f?s=96&#38;d=retro&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">florianmarkowetz</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>A serious case of replication frustration!</title>
		<link>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/a-serious-case-of-replication-frustration/</link>
		<comments>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/a-serious-case-of-replication-frustration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian Markowetz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reproducibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/?p=3867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and this time it doesn&#8217;t even have anything to do with breast cancer. Check out the latest news on replication in the social sciences on my wife&#8217;s new blog Political Science Replication: “I don’t have a ready-made dataset.” – “We don’t have the R code for our paper available.” – “I’m travelling. I will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scientificbsides.wordpress.com&#038;blog=28818718&#038;post=3867&#038;subd=scientificbsides&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://scientificbsides.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/a-serious-case-of-replication-frustration/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0403a8333014922d32d6dd0df09e269f?s=96&#38;d=retro&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">florianmarkowetz</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://politicalsciencereplication.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/replication_head_sm.jpg?w=580&#38;h=197" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Pol Sci Rep</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
