Mar
20
awarded  Nice Question
Feb
14
comment Biology: How does [cell signaling| other complex biological process] work?
Not specific enough
Feb
13
awarded  Centrist
Feb
8
proposed question Academia: In your thesis, how do you properly cite a software package that you used but that is not published in a scientific journal?
Feb
5
proposed question Biology: What are your favorite quotes related to biology?
Feb
5
proposed question Academia: In my PhD should I first aim for a low-impact/low-risk paper and only then move to a more risky project?
Feb
5
comment Biology: Is a virus a living being or not?
I think this is a very interesting question. Where is the border line that separates inanimate aggregation of atoms/molecules from the simplest cellular forms of living such as mycoplasma.
Feb
5
comment Biology: What is the function of mitotic motors in a cellular body?
What are 'mitotic motors'? Maybe rephrased to 'molecular motors in mitosis' it would make sense since they act differently in interphase vs. mitosis.
Feb
5
awarded  Advocate
Feb
5
comment Academia: How do you organize your references: do you read PDF files onscreen or print them and highlight by pen?
I wanted to put the emphasis more on physical versus virtual papers. Some people prefer a stack of (real) papers with some post-it notes, others organize them in a cabinet sorted by author or topic, others put pdfs in folder structures and yet another group lets the computer do the organising (by using one of the proposed reference managers).
Feb
5
comment Biology: How do you organize experiments and results (classic lab journal, electronic, both, date, tags, …)?
I try to clarify: suppose you run several experiments in the lab, for which you take notes in your lab journal. Concurrently you do analysis of data from some of the experiments. How can you relate the two, one on paper and one on the computer? Will you have an index of experiments on the computer? Do you just use the date of the experiment/analysis to correlate the two? What happens if you have additional notes later that you want to attach to the experiment?
Dec
31
awarded  Radical
Sep
2
proposed question Academia: How do you organize your references: do you read PDF files onscreen or print them and highlight by pen?
Sep
1
awarded  Pioneer
Sep
1
proposed question Biology: How do you organize experiments and results (classic lab journal, electronic, both, date, tags, …)?