Category Archives: Silly

Englishman in New York (travel tips for Brits in the USA)

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Gary Mirams

One of my UK students is going to visit the USA soon, so I promised this overdue blog. As a Brit visiting the USA there are certain things that can leave you a bit baffled, that just work differently (I’m … Continue reading →

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Is your model really ‘comprehensive’?

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Gary Mirams

I’ve noticed more and more papers using the phrase “comprehensive model”. This phrase grates every time, and this post is about why. I thought this might just be me getting old and grumpy, so I plotted the mentions of the … Continue reading →

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If computational biologists did astronomy…

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Gary Mirams

Here is a cheeky post along the lines of Can a biologist fix a radio? (well worth a read). The discovery that Pluto wasn’t the size we expected got me thinking about how we would have tackled it. So in … Continue reading →

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