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Toolbox talk: Lights, Camera, Action!

Toolbox talk: Lights, Camera, Action! It is more important than ever for scientists to be concise, engaging and easy to understand. Most importantly, we need to diversify our means …

Dezerae Cox
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Toolbox Talk: Notion

Toolbox Talk: Notion Notion is the type of software that, if you know, you know. After hitting the scene only a few years ago, it has amassed a somewhat cult-like following among …

Dezerae Cox
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Learning to code: it's as easy and as complex as that.

Learning to code: it’s as easy and as complex as that. Many life scientists have used their time under pandemic-induced lockdown to learn their first programming language. Yay! …

Dezerae Cox
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Toolbox Talk: VSCode and Conda

There have been many rapid changes to how, and where, we work as the world settles into a pandemic-induced hibernation. After coming to terms with the fact that many labs could be …

Dezerae Cox
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BioInfoSummer 2019

With half my home state on fire and the lead up to Christmas, this post has been in the works for a few weeks. But here it is - better late than never! My brief recap of my recent …

Dezerae Cox
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Behind the scenes: Investigating the Investigators

The hottest topic on Australian researchers lips of late has been the recent NHMRC Investigator Grant announcement. I recently set about flexing my data-science muscles to see what …

Dezerae Cox
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Investigating the Investigator Grants 2019

Introduction The hottest topic on Australian researchers lips this month has been the recent NHMRC Investigator Grant announcement. After all the commotion around the new scheme …

Dezerae Cox
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Toolbox Talk: Scientific posters

Going to a large, often international, conference jam-packed with superstars in your field is one of the privileges of being a scientist. Conferences are essential for building …

Dezerae Cox
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FASEB Protein Aggregation Conference 2019

After a science career spanning a decade without having attended an international conference, I have been fortunate enough this year to speak at not one but two! What follows is a …

Dezerae Cox
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Toolbox Talk: Storing data using HDF5 files

As an early-career researcher, I am still figuring out the best way to get stuff done. Every day it seems as though my to-do list gets longer and longer, for every item I tick off …

Dezerae Cox