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Big blob thesis OR chapter = publication?
I have a PhD student that should be submitting by approximately Christmas time, so the last week has been a lot of reading and editing. Three chapters, which will eventually become articles, are now...
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I am a sucker… for interesting problems
As a child and as a young person I moved a lot (schools, cities, countries). On one side it gave me plenty of interesting experiences; on the other, a weird sense of belonging and facing racism....
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Why did my breeding values go down?
At first, the question may sound strange. You have been collecting data, running analyses using various acronyms (PBLUP, GBLUP, HBLUP, …), in a univariate/multivariate fashion, using ad-hoc or...
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Python not suitable platform for reproducible research
While [Active Papers] has achieved its mission of demonstrating that unifying computational reproducibility and provenance tracking is doable and useful, it has also demonstrated that Python is not a...
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I do not work in that topic, except when I do
—We are planning a conference on changes to silviculture because of forest fires and climate change… Do you wanna come?—But I don’t work in that topic.—Don’t you? To be perfectly honest, I have never...
View ArticleTaylor & Francis made me do it
Today I received an email from Taylor & Francis letting me know that the final volume and pagination for one of our papers was available, and telling me that I should share this paper with the...
View ArticleDo you remember your first time?
You were nervous. Would they like it as much as you did? Would you make the cut? Your first manuscript as a senior author tends to be a memorable experience. On one side, you have been working a long...
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¿A quién subsidiamos en el sector forestal?
Las últimas semanas ha habido una ofensiva comunicacional grande del sector forestal chileno, con participación de las empresas grandes, CORMA, el Colegio de Ingenieros Forestales, etc. Editoriales,...
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En mi post anterior preguntaba ¿A quién subsidiamos en el sector forestal?, lo que despertó una buena y civilizada discusión. Aprecio mucho la posibilidad de conversar así.Hoy ví que Horacio Gilabert...
View ArticleLast day of teaching
…for this semester. I was really trying to keep my head above water, but gulp, glug, I kept on taking water in. There is a pile of marking and two exams coming my way in a few weeks. Anyone that could...
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