#invacost

‘Living’ figures

Have you ever constructed a database and then published the findings, only to realise that after the time elapsed your database is already obsolete? This is the reality of scientific information today. There are so many of us doing so many things that information accumulates substantially in months, if not weeks. If you’re a geneticist, this probably happens for many datasets on the order of…

Or thereabouts. Let’s step back to 2015. In a former life when I was at another institution, I had the immense fortune and pleasure to spend six months on sabbatical in a little village just south of Paris working with my friend and colleague, Franck Courchamp, at Université Paris-Sud (now Université Paris-Saclay). Sure, I felt a bit jammy living there with me daughter in a beautiful house just…