I have published many posts on this blog under the JABBA heading. This stands for ‘Just Another Bogus Bioinformatics Acronym’ and the point of the JABBA Awards was to recognise extremely tenuous acron...

I track 15 daily, weekly, and monthly habits in the Streaks app — some go well, some don't. Here's what the current state of my habits in August 2026 says about me.

Back in 1997, building a website meant typing HTML by hand. My first website was called 'By 'eck, it's worse than Barnsley’ and this post takes a nostalgic look at how this website came to be. I also ...

I started my genomics career literally at a time when the first eukaryotic genome sequence was published ( yeast, 1996 ). My PhD thesis was titled ‘The molecular evolution of eukaryotic genomes’ which...

Website analytics are getting harder to trust: AI search summaries are cutting overall traffic, while AI apps and tools are increasingly showing up in the vague "direct" bucket instead of being proper...

Away from work, I am a Mac and iPad user. If I want to check my calendar, I open a calendar app. If I want to check my email, I open an email app. At work though, I’m locked into the standard PC-base...

An increasing challenge for those of us working in the world of website analytics is the impact on traffic from Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini. The traffic – or as I wil...

Patrick Michael O’Shea, known to most simply as Rick, passed away in 2025 at the age of 59. A man of great heart, humour, and humility, Rick lived a life defined by kindness, purpose, and a deep…

On 13 September, between 2-5pm, Careif will be supporting an event to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr Suman Fernando, who died earlier in the year aged 92. Dr Fernando had an international…

In this blog post, the College’s Web team discuss why we've added QR codes to many of our award-winning mental health information pages – and why it’s good news both for our members and for patients.

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My two boys have somehow amassed *four* different advent calendars each this year. Their grandparents hve bought them an advent calendar which features a daily science experiment that you can do! I ...