Best Of

My posts are my babies, they are all special to me. However, here is a short list of some that are even more special than the others:

• 2017: …
• 2016: Who else likes a Goblin? The daughter and I do
• 2015: Why science needs continuous leadership support
• 2014: Cancer heterogeneity and evolution – the review to end all reviews
• 2013: The cancer of Henrietta Lacks: more telomerase, less angels please
• 2012: On systems biology and bullshit
• 2011: Feyerabend and the tyranny of science

My selection contrasts slightly with the readers’ favorites. My top posts ranked by the number of views are

1. Mix Tape #1: Best Songs About Science
2. A philosophical suicide — Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending
3. From Postdoc to PI — Ten Simple Rules for Applying (part 1)

Thematic collections

Some posts are part of a series, in which I explore a specific topic. Currently I am developing two of those:

Inferring tumour evolution

1. The intra-tumour phylogeny problem
2. Comparison to classical phylogenetics
3. Methods for single samples
4. Methods for multiple samples of the same tumour
5. and more than I can list here …

Methods versus insights

1. Spare me your method; show me your finding!
2. How the Pros do it
3. The data don’t fall from the sky
4. The four stages of a project (and the fifth you should avoid)