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"published_at": "2015-07-10T12:43:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-b154-71e2-9b02-19595ffa2701", "title": "Pondering p-values before breakfast", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/pondering-p-values-for-breakfast/", "published_at": "2015-06-10T03:51:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-b154-71e2-9b02-19596034a5f8", "title": "I was wrong", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/i-was-wrong/", "published_at": "2015-06-09T08:10:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-b154-71e2-9b02-195960afc278", "title": "Pachter’s P-value Prize", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/pachters-p-value-prize/", "published_at": "2015-05-26T08:07:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-b154-71e2-9b02-19596185b29b", "title": "The most embarrassing citation ever?", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/the-most-embarrassing-citation-ever/", "published_at": "2015-05-20T08:33:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-b154-71e2-9b02-1959618ce65e", "title": "Near-optimal RNA-Seq quantification with kallisto", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/near-optimal-rna-seq-quantification-with-kallisto/", "published_at": "2015-05-11T06:38:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-03b5-7346-aaf4-2c6d5f5b488a", "title": "Subset sums", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/subset-sums/", "published_at": "2015-04-10T00:28:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-03b5-7346-aaf4-2c6d5ff62d7f", "title": "Colori", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/colori/", "published_at": "2015-02-23T12:27:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-03b5-7346-aaf4-2c6d60e62aa0", "title": "The two cultures of mathematics and biology", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/the-two-cultures-of-mathematics-and-biology/", "published_at": "2014-12-30T16:56:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-03b5-7346-aaf4-2c6d6147a4f0", "title": "The perfect human is Puerto Rican", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/the-perfect-human-is-puerto-rican/", "published_at": "2014-12-02T13:23:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-03b5-7346-aaf4-2c6d61b5b470", "title": "To some a citation is worth $3 per year", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/to-some-a-citation-is-worth-3-per-year/", "published_at": "2014-10-31T16:16:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-03b5-7346-aaf4-2c6d6239c953", "title": "The two-body opportunity", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/the-two-body-opportunity/", "published_at": "2014-10-10T15:59:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-03b5-7346-aaf4-2c6d630ff833", "title": "The Middle East is not one-dimensional", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/the-middle-east-is-not-one-dimensional/", "published_at": "2014-10-08T12:31:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-03b5-7346-aaf4-2c6d63e11e1c", "title": "Do you know your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers?", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/do-you-know-your-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfath/", "published_at": "2014-09-22T16:29:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-03b5-7346-aaf4-2c6d64322664", "title": "Removing unwanted variation (from the literature)", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/removing-unwanted-variation-from-the-literature/", "published_at": "2014-09-12T08:52:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-03b5-7346-aaf4-2c6d64576237", "title": "Digital normalization revealed", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/digital-normalization-revealed/", "published_at": "2014-09-11T08:44:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-4cd3-7283-b0d3-5702eec3474e", "title": "Year-end review", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/year-end-review/", "published_at": "2014-08-20T06:33:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-4cd3-7283-b0d3-5702ef73d694", "title": "Nicholas Wade’s troublesome inheritance", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/nicholas-wades-troublesome-inheritance/", "published_at": "2014-06-04T13:08:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-4cd3-7283-b0d3-5702f01ec5bb", "title": "What is principal component analysis?", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/what-is-principal-component-analysis/", "published_at": "2014-05-26T11:13:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-4cd3-7283-b0d3-5702f07d8b36", "title": "Bessel’s correction and the dangers of MOOCs", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/bessels-correction-and-the-dangers-of-moocs/", "published_at": "2014-05-25T17:05:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-4cd3-7283-b0d3-5702f0f1caf2", "title": "Time to end ordered authorship", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/time-to-end-ordered-authorship/", "published_at": "2014-05-17T01:22:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-4cd3-7283-b0d3-5702f1163bdb", "title": "Estimating number of transcripts from RNA-Seq measurements (and why I believe in paywall)", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/estimating-number-of-transcripts-from-rna-seq-measurements-and-why-i-believe-in-paywall/", "published_at": "2014-04-30T10:47:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-4cd3-7283-b0d3-5702f18ff91e", "title": "Does researching casual marijuana use cause brain abnormalities?", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/does-researching-casual-marijuana-use-cause-brain-abnormalities/", "published_at": "2014-04-17T10:53:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-4cd3-7283-b0d3-5702f216a0b7", "title": "Designing roofs and drawing phylogenetic trees", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/designing-roofs-and-drawing-phylogenetic-trees/", "published_at": "2014-03-25T19:39:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-4cd3-7283-b0d3-5702f25cfdb9", "title": "Reproducibility vs. usability", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/reproducibility-vs-usability/", "published_at": "2014-03-18T23:01:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-4cd3-7283-b0d3-5702f327e743", "title": "Using statistical methods to estimate and take into account experimental measurement errors: a case study using high throughput proteomics data", "url": "https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/using-statistical-methods-to-estimate-and-take-into-account-experimental-measurement-errors-a-case-study-using-high-throughput-proteomics-data/", "published_at": "2014-03-01T22:28:15+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Align AI and Mathematics—to Something Elseoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
Hausdorfforiginal ↗
14 Apr 2026
Nowakiaoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2026
The Quickeningoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2026

2025

Review of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Obituary for Dr. James Watsonoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2025
Zbąszyńoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2025
Reply to: Reply to: False positives in the study of memory-related gene expressionoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2025
Epistemic failure of epistemic failureoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2025

2024

The Journal of Scientific Integrityoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2024
A note on “How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers”original ↗
8 Mar 2024
All of Us failedoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2024
Women in mathematics – a case studyoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2024

2023

Gregg L. Semenza’s retractionsoriginal ↗
25 May 2023
Ting Guo, sexual assault allegations, and the UC Davis Young Scholars Programoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2023

2022

A decade of molecular cell atlasesoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2022

2021

The amoral nonsense of Orchid’s embryo selectionoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2021

2020

Williams math professor investigating voter fraud in Pennsylvania finds no evidenceoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2020
Mathematical analysis of “mathematical analysis” of a vitamin D COVID-19 trialoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2020
The lethal nonsense of Michael Levittoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2020
Sexual harassment case number 1,052original ↗
10 Sept 2020
$ How to profit from COVID-19 testing $original ↗
31 Jul 2020
Black lives matteroriginal ↗
10 Jun 2020
Diversity mattersoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2020

2019

How many doubly manlocked scientists are there?original ↗
18 Nov 2019
An outrage at UC Davisoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2019
Zero-data RNA-seqoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2019
Is Python really faster than C++ ?original ↗
9 Oct 2019
High velocity RNA velocityoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2019
Rotating the knee (plot) and related yogaoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2019
How to solve an NP-complete problem in linear timeoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2019
Single-cell RNA-seq for dummiesoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2019
Near-optimal pre-processing of single-cell RNA-seqoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2019
Introduction to single-cell RNA-seq technologiesoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2019
Nonsense methods tend to produce nonsense resultsoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2019
Sub-Poisson loading for single-cell RNA-seqoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2019
Technologies of narcissismoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2019
Open sourcing bioinstrumentsoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2019
Fast and accurate gene differential expression by testing transcript compatibility countsoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2019

2018

How to write a paper in four minutesoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2018
Yuval Peresoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2018
I was wrong (part 3)original ↗
5 Nov 2018
The combinatorics of authorship in the biological sciencesoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2018
Rate changes decrease substitutionsoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2018
Mathematics mattersoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2018
Low IQ scores predict excellence in data scienceoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2018
The benefits of multiplexingoriginal ↗
30 May 2018
James Watson in his own wordsoriginal ↗
18 May 2018
Waterman’s eggoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2018
GDE² = DGE² + DTU² = DTE₁² + DTE₂²original ↗
15 Feb 2018
Bioinformatics on a Rock64original ↗
29 Jan 2018
Terry Speed: a “male feminist”original ↗
17 Jan 2018

2017

How to cite the GTEx projectoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2017
A rebuttaloriginal ↗
2 Sept 2017
I was wrong (part 2)original ↗
3 Aug 2017
How not to perform a differential expression analysis (or science)original ↗
2 Aug 2017
0 = 1original ↗
6 Apr 2017
The joy of (blogging) Bachoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2017
My aperiodic rhombic bathroomoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2017
A citation is not a citation is not a citationoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2017

2016

The Happy Ending in 2016original ↗
31 Dec 2016
Confusion matrix terminology is taxicab trigonometryoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2016
Something the NIH can learn from NASAoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2016
It cannot possibly be trueoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2016
Caltechoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2016
The ice-cream-cone-prooforiginal ↗
10 May 2016
The relative impact factor of glamour journals is 2.166original ↗
23 Feb 2016
The Heroes of CRISPRoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2016
A statistical companion to “Stochastic Gene Expression in a Single Cell”original ↗
18 Jan 2016

2015

What is a read mapping?original ↗
1 Nov 2015
Straining metagenomicsoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2015
Unsolved problems with the common coreoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2015
A sleuth for RNA-Seqoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2015
In biology n does not go to infinityoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2015
How to average genome-wide dataoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2015
The myths of bioinformatics softwareoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2015
Pondering p-values before breakfastoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2015
I was wrongoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2015
Pachter’s P-value Prizeoriginal ↗
26 May 2015
The most embarrassing citation ever?original ↗
20 May 2015
Near-optimal RNA-Seq quantification with kallistooriginal ↗
11 May 2015
Subset sumsoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2015
Colorioriginal ↗
23 Feb 2015

2014

The two cultures of mathematics and biologyoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2014
The perfect human is Puerto Ricanoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2014
To some a citation is worth $3 per yearoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2014
The two-body opportunityoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2014
The Middle East is not one-dimensionaloriginal ↗
8 Oct 2014
Do you know your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers?original ↗
22 Sept 2014
Removing unwanted variation (from the literature)original ↗
12 Sept 2014
Digital normalization revealedoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2014
Year-end revieworiginal ↗
20 Aug 2014
Nicholas Wade’s troublesome inheritanceoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2014
What is principal component analysis?original ↗
26 May 2014
Bessel’s correction and the dangers of MOOCsoriginal ↗
25 May 2014
Time to end ordered authorshiporiginal ↗
17 May 2014
Estimating number of transcripts from RNA-Seq measurements (and why I believe in paywall)original ↗
30 Apr 2014
Does researching casual marijuana use cause brain abnormalities?original ↗
17 Apr 2014
Designing roofs and drawing phylogenetic treesoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2014
Reproducibility vs. usabilityoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2014
Using statistical methods to estimate and take into account experimental measurement errors: a case study using high throughput proteomics dataoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2014
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