2012
 May
  06 Bad Science
  02 Vappu
 Apr
  27 Suomi
  16 Jelly legs
  09 Memma // Mämmi
  07 Winter family visit...
  02 Basel touch rugby
 Mar
  27 BIT Life Sciences a...
  27 Scientists are idio...
  20 Sophocles quote
  14 Sprechen Sie Deutsc...
  12 Robert Weinberg get...
  11 Shepherd's Pie Nigh...
  10 Ethnic food
  05 MPSE facility
  03 Flame on
 Feb
  28 Basel Faschnacht
  19 Pearson versus Spea...
  17 Heatmaps and cluste...
  15 Goodby Aunty Carol
  11 French freeze
  10 HOPP hooray!
  07 Night out
  03 Icy touch
  01 Last impressum
 Jan
  28 Turning the tables ...
  27 Fair fa' your ...
  24 Gene expression pat...
  18 Wasted
  16 State of mania
  13 3457 days of Zurich
  11 Touch rugby
  10 Linear regression
  10 Unemployment blues
  10 Steven Hawking quot...
  10 Phenotypia
Bad Science
I'm supposed to be the Gene Array Editor for the journal Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research. In return for this title I provided (among other things) some basic rules for researchers wanting to publish DNA microarray studies of gene expression.

However it seems that these rules are more often honoured in the breach than not. There are many researchers using microarrays who still dont understand (or even acknowledge) multiple testing error.

PCMR recently accepted a particularly egregious example (you can find it here).

If I had been given a chance to review this paper it certainly wouldn't have been accepted in its current form. Do I still want to be the Gene Array Editor for PCMR?

The answer is starting to look like "no".

Sunday, 6th of May, 2012 at 11:35 am
Vappu
The Finns mark the end of April with a huge party, called Vappu. Leila and I met a long-time friend of hers (Anni) in Helsinki and went with her to join the party. Lots of schoolhat waving and drinking until well into the night. Fun!

Next morning we walked down to one of the big parks where everyone (literally, everyone) was celebrating May day by having a giant communal picnic.

The weather was really very nice, 11°C but very sunny.

Wednesday, 2nd of May, 2012 at 9:01 pm