Every week, each student is asked to read and discuss a series of reading assignments. The topics of the reading assignments include reproducibitity in science, open source practices, and applications to climate science, among others.
You have to submit one paragraph per each separate article that highlights an important idea in the reading. This can be something that caught your attention and you would like to expand on a little bit more. You are more than welcome to orient this into something related to your own research or area of interest. A good length is between 80 and 120 words.
You will submit your reading assignments in bCourses. Reading assignments will be due on Fridays at 11:59PM, with the exception of our first readings, which will be due on Monday, September 8 at 11:59PM. No late reading assignments will be accepted unless there is a medical situation or other documented major emergency. In that case, you will need to submit in Ed a private note to the instructors with supporting evidence showing that you are unable to complete the assignment.
You can drop two readings, no questions asked. Notice that this applies to INDIVIDUAL readings. For example, if the weekly reading consists of 4 papers, you can drop a maximum of two of them. If you drop two readings in one week, you cannot drop any other one without penalty.
Each reading assignment is worth 1 point. The final points for the reading assignments is the sum of all the readings. Notice that this means that the maximum credit you can obtain per week depends on the number of readings that week.
A running list of the semester’s reading assignments will be provided below and updated throughout the semester.
Week 3: Due Monday, September 8 at 11:59PM
The Importance of Reproducible Research in High-Throughput Biology - Keith Baggerly (2018)
Note: These are videos, not readings. Since the 60 Minutes video is quite short and gives context, you will only need to submit one paragraph for this week’s assignment (usually, you’d have to do one per reading/video). Also, this week’s assignment is due on a Monday, but for the remainder of the semester, reading assignments will usually be due on Fridays.
Week 4: Due Friday, September 12 at 11:59PM
Note: For this week, you will need to review the above materials, and for each one, write 2-3 sentences answering the following questions: what is visualized? how is it visualized? how do you feel having seen the visualization? Minor content warnings: gun deaths, brief mention of self harm