Herding Cats Scientists by personality, by training and by experience tend to be individualists and sole operators. They worked on their own project as a PhD student, they worked hard and made sacrifices to get their own grant or research fellowship, and once they’ve set up their own lab, they understandably want to do things… Read More »
How you organise your computational projects is important. If you’re not careful you can find yourself with hundreds of computer-hours worth of data, without being exactly sure which parameters or scripts you used to generate it. One way to keep track of your scripts and your data is with a JOBID number, which you attach… Read More »
If you need to free up some space you can use this script to find and compress files in linux. In my case I had some simulation files that were not currently needed, but I didn’t want to get rid of them completely. A Simple Bash Script This simple script just looks through the whole… Read More »
I’ve picked out a few of the utility programs that I find invaluable. Some of them I use everyday, and some of them I just like to keep around to get me out of trouble from time to time. Let me know in the comments which little programs you can’t do without. Launchy This is… Read More »
Beagle 2 was the UK’s first mission to another planet. The huge amount of publicity and hype surrounding the mission came to nothing after the mars lander was lost during it’s descent to the planet’s surface. After the dust had settled on the mission’s failure, the University of Leicester published a report which tells us… Read More »