Publications

Phylogenies and the Comparative Method

Comparative studies of the relationship between two phenotypes, or between a phenotype and an environment, are frequently carried out by invalid statistical methods. Most regres...

Weapons of the weak: Everyday forms of peasant resistance

The 2016 revision to the World Health Organization classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemia

Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) classification of tumors of the hematopoietic and lymphoid tissues was last updated in 2008. Since then, there have been numerous ad...

Subcommission on geochronology: Convention on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochronology

The basics of epithelial-mesenchymal transition

The origins of the mesenchymal cells participating in tissue repair and pathological processes, notably tissue fibrosis, tumor invasiveness, and metastasis, are poorly understoo...

Functional connectivity in the motor cortex of resting human brain using echo‐planar mri

Abstract An MRI time course of 512 echo‐planar images (EPI) in resting human brain obtained every 250 ms reveals fluctuations in signal intensity in each pixel that have a physi...

Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39

Scientific work is heterogeneous, requiring many different actors and viewpoints. It also requires cooperation. The two create tension between divergent viewpoints and the need ...

8 Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Foreword Introduction 1. Imperialism, History, Writing and Theory 2. Research through Imperial Eyes 3. Colonizing Knowledges 4. Research Adventures on Indigenous Land 5. Notes f...

Orbital angular momentum of light and the transformation of Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes

Laser light with a Laguerre-Gaussian amplitude distribution is found to have a well-defined orbital angular momentum. An astigmatic optical system may be used to transform a hig...

Statistical significance for genomewide studies

With the increase in genomewide experiments and the sequencing of multiple genomes, the analysis of large data sets has become commonplace in biology. It is often the case that ...

Ecological responses to recent climate change

The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A ...