It's been incredibly difficult to get started but finally here I am, writing my first blog post to get things rolling. I am a computational biologist who works at the interface of biology, chemistry, computer science, statistics and mathematics. This is an exhilarating experience but sometimes scary as well because I don't know what to do and how. Thankfully, I have experts all around me (physically and/or virtually) who help me get through. This help comes from fellow researchers, people I meet at conferences or otherwise, scientists on social media etc.
It's been very long since I wanted to write a blog. Somehow, couldn't get this started. I think it was writer's block, with a tinge of laziness. Hopefully, I'll get out of this slump and write more and better blog posts and subsequently papers, even if people don't read them. Of late, few excellent blogs I read inspired me to start mine. One of them is the blog by Claus Wilke, who writes excellent posts and I strongly recommend it if you are in academia and research. Most useful information, and even interesting literature I would have otherwise missed (I follow RSS feeds from hundreds of journals. Needless to say, I can never keep up) comes from twitter feed where excellent researchers share their knowledge with me and others for free. Yasset Perez-Riverol, a fellow proteomics researcher, also recently blogged about most active proteomics tweeple (people on twitter).
So, this is an example of how networked our life is and thus the thoughts we have are immediately affected by our networks. I see networks everywhere and influenced by them. Their importance has been well realized by many and rightfully network science is a field in its own right which affects and interests people from biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics, social sciences, economy... the list goes on.
On this blog, I will write about my experiences and share my thoughts on science, career, sports, chess, cricket, philosophy of success and failure, coding , mathematics, bioinformatics, health science, mentoring, being a mentee, self development, learning, happiness and enjoying life. Hoping to build an audience that engages here, shares its views and helps me grow into a better writer, a better scientist and a better human being.
It's been very long since I wanted to write a blog. Somehow, couldn't get this started. I think it was writer's block, with a tinge of laziness. Hopefully, I'll get out of this slump and write more and better blog posts and subsequently papers, even if people don't read them. Of late, few excellent blogs I read inspired me to start mine. One of them is the blog by Claus Wilke, who writes excellent posts and I strongly recommend it if you are in academia and research. Most useful information, and even interesting literature I would have otherwise missed (I follow RSS feeds from hundreds of journals. Needless to say, I can never keep up) comes from twitter feed where excellent researchers share their knowledge with me and others for free. Yasset Perez-Riverol, a fellow proteomics researcher, also recently blogged about most active proteomics tweeple (people on twitter).
On this blog, I will write about my experiences and share my thoughts on science, career, sports, chess, cricket, philosophy of success and failure, coding , mathematics, bioinformatics, health science, mentoring, being a mentee, self development, learning, happiness and enjoying life. Hoping to build an audience that engages here, shares its views and helps me grow into a better writer, a better scientist and a better human being.
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ReplyDeleteI will (hopefully) elaborate on this in a future blog post. Till then stay tuned !
DeleteAppreciation for initiative hope i would do same.
ReplyDeleteThanks, all the best
ReplyDeleteAmazing...all d best
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