#365papers a day in 2015: my thoughts

I often see hashtags being used by other scientists on twitter that I have no idea what they mean. For example, in December a bunch of people were posting with #op12, which meant 'operation productivity for December'. Sometimes it takes a little while to track down the source of the hashtag and what exactly it means, but …

Responses to a Wall Street Journal op-ed

The Wall Street Journal published a creationist op-ed called "Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God". I wrote a letter to the editor in response, as did a professor of astrophysics.