Notes from the Edge

A compendium with digressions of topics started elsewhere on the interwebs (or things on my mind).

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The Hourglass Paragraph Structure

January 6, 2023

As a post-doc we had a grant writing class, and Dr. Ed Krug introduced to me to one of my failsafe writing crutches, the hourglass paragraph structure.
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ChatGPT writes me a script

December 12, 2022

At the request of Rob Beynon, I am posting the conversation I with ChatGPT to have it write me a script.
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The march to Mastodon

November 14, 2022

With Twitter changing hands, many users are contemplating (or have already ) left SciTwitter for Mastodon.
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Is it a fight if only one side is fighting

June 6, 2022

A constant discussion on the twitters, and in-person, is the rise of non-mass spec based proteomic techniques.
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Tortured Phrases and Plagerism

May 20, 2022

In a recent lecture by Elisabeth Bik, the concept of "tortured phrases" came up. What are they, and can I make them?
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The 60/30/10 "rule"

May 17, 2022

Most people know about Google's 80/20 rule, but last January I learned about the 60/30/10 rule.
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