I’ve posted about publication lag times previously. The “lag” refers to the time from submitting a paper and it appearing in a journal. Publication lag times are still a frustration for researchers. Although preprints circumvent the delay in sharing science with others, publication is still king when it comes to evaluation. Contracts are short and […]
It’s 2026 and so it’s time for another edition of “the papers I selected for a module that I teach”. Previous selections are here (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022). The list serves as a snapshot of interesting papers published in the previous 12 months or so. I hope it’s useful to others who are looking for lists […]
An idea for a masters-level class or journal club alternative: “Where are they now?” but for big splash papers published in the 2000s. Take a few papers published around 20 years ago, then follow what happened subsequently. Thinking about papers in my own field from that period, the broad possibilities are that a given paper: […]
It’s plot recreation time! In this post, we’ll look at how we can recreate a plot in R. I thought it might be useful to provide the solution but also to detail the process I went through to get there. We have a FACS plot taken from a BD FACS Aria machine: Briefly, it’s a […]
Another year, another edition of “the papers I selected for a module that I teach”. Previous selections are grouped here or here. The list serves as a snapshot of interesting papers published in the previous 12 months or so. I hope it is useful to others who are looking for lists of papers to read, for student selections or […]
Previously, I took advantage of a dataset that linked preprints to their published counterparts to look at the fraction of papers in a journal that are preprinted. This linkage can be used to answer other interesting questions. Such as: when do authors preprint their papers relative to submission? And does this differ by journal? There’s […]
Hot on the heals of the post on how to downsize microscopy movie files, let’s look at ways to shrink the size of a PDF file. There’s several ways to tackle this – suggestions came from this thread on Mastodon. Scenario: you have created a preprint/manuscript/proposal in PDF format. It looks great and is 18.4 […]
It is time for my annual post of the papers I selected for a module that I teach (MD9A8, the module formerly known as MD997). Previous selections are grouped here or here. The list serves as a snapshot of interesting papers published in the previous 12 months or so. I hope it is useful to others who are looking […]
We have a new paper out describing how vesicles move inside cells. The paper in a nutshell In science-speak We analysed how small vesicles are transported in cells. In contrast to large vesicles and organelles, which move using motors inside cells, our analysis revealed that passive diffusion is the main mode of small vesicle transport. […]
It’s a New Year and so it is time to post the papers I have selected for a module that I teach on (MD9A8, the module formerly known as MD997). Previous selections are grouped here or here. The list serves as a snapshot of interesting papers published in the previous 12 months or so. I hope it […]