Contents

• Breeding Ain't Noise Pollution

  Haven’t been writing much about breeding and quantitative genetics lately, which means that I’ve been playing with my usual obsessions.…
  23 Jun, '25

• The hardest thing

  In my humble opinion, one of the hardest things about teaching is that explanations that make sense to me today…
  16 Jun, '25

• Broken pipelines

  A research organisation in LinkedIn claimed excellent achievements collaborating with industry: researchers have solved ‘the problem’. I just happened to…
  12 Jun, '25

• I hope they run out of money to burn soon

  This is the last teaching week of the first semester for us. Next week is ‘study week’, no irony intended,…
  28 May, '25

• This manuscript could have been a blog post

  I often think that when reading or writing manuscripts for journal articles. The article ‘formula’ contains many, sorry, formulaic components.…
  18 May, '25

• Fears

  As a child, I used to be afraid of quick sand and self-combustion. Not that I lived in a place…
  9 May, '25

• Odds and ends for writing

  ༄> A few things that I need to remember when writing posts for this site:
  25 Apr, '25

• Databases

  Mindblown. That’s the first reaction when I start thinking of how much data availability has changed in breeding programmes. It…
  19 Apr, '25

• Writing tools

  ༄> A few links to working with text editors:
  18 Apr, '25

• We need some serious, bold objectives

  This time I don’t mean breeding objectives (a list of biological traits that we want to improve and their respective…
  15 Apr, '25