Science, Writing, Fitness, Nutrition, Professional Development. I blog on a variety of topics, including professional development, scientific writing, and health and fitness. Below are a few select articles you might find interesting. To read my latest posts, visit my blog. To read posts on specific topics, head over to virtual books. To see a complete list of all blog posts ever written, visit the table of contents. How good is good enough? Critical decision points in the academic career.

I blog on a variety of topics, including professional development, scientific writing, and health and fitness. Below are a few select articles you might find interesting. To read my latest posts, visit my blog. To read posts on specific topics, head over to virtual books. To see a complete list of all blog posts ever written, visit the table of contents. How good is good enough? Critical decision points in the academic career. Should you list on your cv a paper that is in review? Know what you want to say.

Improving the Xbox Kinect algorithm with deep learning. Twitch Plays Pokemon, Machine Learns Twitch. Detecting trolls with 38 million chat messages on twitch. Download the code and dataset. Three million Facebook photos offer insight into facial features shared by extroverts. Short introduction with some external links. Data Scientist, Ads Targeting.

My name is Ben and I use computers to solve problems in biology. I am a third-year graduate student in the laboratory of Claus Wilke. At the University of Texas at Austin. Embedding fonts into R-generated PDFs on OS X. Setting Up El Capitan for Biocomputing.

I am a Research Assisant Professor in the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine. At Temple University, in Dr. from the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior graduate program. My research interests broadly encompass computational molecular evolution, phylogenetics, and protein evolution.