Links

Was cleaning out my bookmarks and found a couple of links that you might find interesting:

• A field guide to biomedical meeting creatures, part 1: Any questions? at Orac Knows - astute (and funny) guide to the different types of people who ask you questions after presentations.
  
• A field guide to biomedical meeting creatures, part 2: Poster Time! at Orac Knows - more of the same but as it applies to people asking you questions about your poster (and people presenting posters)
  
• On the Money at In the Pipeline - On the differences between working in academia and industry. Slightly skewed towards industry if you ask me, but then I've never worked in big pharma. Does have some good points though (and quotes that 'graduate school is the last bastion of feudalism' which I thought was good).
• Industry and Academia, pt 1 at In the Pipeline - more thoughts on the matter.
• Industry and Academia, pt 2 at In the Pipeline
• Industry and Academa: The Mental Aspect at In the Pipeline- Super summarized: there's a finish-the-project-or-die attitude in academia.
• Programmers Need to Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All via Zed's Blog - applies equally to bioinformaticians.
• Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught - Not sure about the "publish the same result several times" advice. That's another one of my pet peeves.

Standard disclaimers about this author not necessarily agreeing with the contents of all those links applies. Happy reading...