It took me 10 years to go from an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry to a PhD in Social Psychology. Along the way I dropped out of a PhD program, worked as a lab manager, re-applied and re-entered graduate school, changed PhD advisors, and changed sub-disciplines of study. There are many ways to be successful in graduate school. If your goal is to most fully complete your education by earning your PhD, you can do it – even if you hit some bumps!
I just preprinted my first 1st-author paper. Exciting! You can find it here: How Many Psychologists Use Questionable Research Practices? I used this paper as a project to learn how to create a fully reproducible paper. By that, I mean a person could take my data files and my “paper” file and fully reproduce the paper (including analyses, figures, tables, etc) and the final document all in one step. The special part of this process is the “paper” file.
Some say there is an issue with tone in the push for more open and reproducible science. Is there evidence of this?
I wanted to try using R and rtweet to collect and explore some twitter data. Here are the results of 5 minutes-worth of tweets directed at President Trump!
Psychology is aware of its problems with flexibility in data collection and analysis…but what about immunology? Here I cover some glaring issues with a common immunological data collection method: flow cytometry.
There is a growing movement of “free speech” academics on college campuses…but where are they on the fight for net neutrality?
There is a growing movement of “free speech” academics on college campuses…but where are they on the fight for net neutrality?