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Not Good Enough.
Ed Yong is one of the English language’s better science writers. He often weighs in on issues facing academia, in addition to reporting science. One of the biggest issues facing academia right now is...
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Paid Interns Only.
I don’t accept unpaid interns. MECMC is a teaching hospital, and it is affiliated with VFU, a major university with a prominent medical college. Just down the way there is UHR, another fine school with...
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A Strange Turn into Research Policy.
Twitter is a fascinating, self-contradictory place for scientists. A huge and robust community. By turns enlightened and enlightening, ruthlessly orthodox, whimsical and humorless, unified and...
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Actual Math.
Yay! I get to do some real math. I totally feel like a real engineer and a real scientist this morning. I have a huge amount of work to do over the next few days on my little research policy paper. It...
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Glamorous for Me.
Chasing glamour publications is a big problem in science. Well, it’s at least a small problem. The competition for journals like Science and NEJM is incredibly intense, and people will do whatever they...
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Scientific Paternalism.
This isn’t about GMOs. My opinion on GMO crops is that they are safe, and should be widely adopted for the many, many benefits they bring. Humans have been adapting crops and animals to their needs for...
View ArticleDating Someone in Recovery.
A new friend reached out to me with a question. They’ve recently begun dating a person in recovery, sober around seven years. The question was, how does a “normal” person date a sober person? My friend...
View ArticleGiving Talks and Career Musings.
I am giving two talks in the next two days. The first is a simple little talk on process engineering and publication of process engineering in healthcare. The second is about using computer simulation...
View ArticleThe Plan Proceeding!
Today I met with the director of MECMC’s population health research group. I had applied for an Associate Professor position with his outfit, which is a collaborative unit between MECMC and VFU. When I...
View ArticleSystems Theory Everyone Gets Wrong – or Why There’s No Trump Economy Yet.
I am a Systems Engineer. That’s what I do for a living, and I’m at least reasonably good at it. I specialize in healthcare, so that’s where my general expertise lies from a subject-matter perspective,...
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