CELL*WISE

I don't know if I'll have much time to write my own posts this week because of a lot of work and Thanksgiving (but trust me, they will start happening soon, and then I will stop with any excuses), so I would like to share these fun, thoughtful, and brief articles written by other people.

"Ten Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research, According to Hamming" (Erren TC, Cullen P, Erren M, Bourne PE (2007) Ten Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research, According to Hamming. PLoS Comput Biol 3(10): e213 doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030213), which is basically a condensed and annotated version of the excellent and timeless suggestions made by mathematician Richard Hamming in his 1986 talk "You and Your Research".
This was also summarized yesterday by the entertaining and informative blog Bayblab, with "10 Simple Rules to Be a Successful Scientist".

"15 Reasons to Be a Scientist" by a happy Nick Oswald at the very clever and helpful blog Bitesize Bio.

"10 Reasons NOT to Be a Scientist" by a frustrated Nick Oswald at the very clever and helpful blog Bitesize Bio.


And because I will be giving several presentations in the next couple months...

"10 Tips for Better Presentations" by Nick Oswald at Bitesize Bio.

Plus two more from the "Ten Simple Rules" series in PLoS (Public Library of Science):

"Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations" (Bourne PE (2007) Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations. PLoS Comput Biol 3(4): e77 doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030077)

"Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation" (Erren TC, Bourne PE (2007) Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation. PLoS Comput Biol 3(5): e102 doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030102)

Thank you to Richard Hamming, the authors of the PLoS articles, Bayblab, Bitesize Bio, and to Jorge Cham at PHD Comics for the above comic strip image.