Contents

• Fears

  As a child, I used to be afraid of quick sand and self-combustion. Not that I lived in a place…
  9 May, '25

• Odds and ends for writing

  ༄> A few things that I need to remember when writing posts for this site:
  25 Apr, '25

• Databases

  Mindblown. That’s the first reaction when I start thinking of how much data availability has changed in breeding programmes. It…
  19 Apr, '25

• Writing tools

  ༄> A few links to working with text editors:
  18 Apr, '25

• We need some serious, bold objectives

  This time I don’t mean breeding objectives (a list of biological traits that we want to improve and their respective…
  15 Apr, '25

• Third time this year

  that I get a direct message which starts the following dialogue:
  15 Apr, '25

• Breeding: the two sides of accuracy

  I have been reading several documents in which methodologies are compared in terms of accuracy: the correlation between true and…
  8 Apr, '25

• One of my manuscripts was rejected by a journal

  ‘That’s par for the course!’ you could say, except that I don’t play or understand golf, so I take it…
  26 Mar, '25

• Things that I'd like today

  Like LiDAR, but for wood properties. Clear genetic identities for older plantations. A good network of well-connected, genetic gain trials…
  16 Mar, '25

• Why I pay for some music

  ♬♪ Today at lunch time I attended the Professorial Lecture by Ann-Marie Kennedy. She works in Social Marketing and was talking…
  12 Mar, '25