Monkeyshines

Category: Travel

  • Book Battle 4: The Hare with Amber Eyes vs The World of Yesterday

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    James
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    When I’m off on my travels, I like to read books that are set in my destination. And ordinarily I read fiction, as real pastos (pron: past-ohs) aren’t really my cup of tea. However, in an effort to combat my long-standing antipathy towards History (in the sense of the school subject, rather than the past…

  • MASAMB XXI, in Vienna

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    James
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    I was pleased to be invited to present some of my work at the MASAMB conference in Vienna recently (11-12th April 2011). My talk was titled “Quantifying the effect of evolution and genomic alignment on de novo RNA gene prediction”. I have a similarly themed manuscript in preparation, so won’t go into detail here. But…