This is really interesting.

This is really interesting. It questions the generally held wisdom that correlation does not apply causation, at least in simple situations. In a simple two variable relationship the noise of the causing variable will have an effect on the other variable but the reverse would not be true.
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/cause-and-effect-the-revolutionary-new-statistical-test-that-can-tease-them-apart-ed84a988e

Huge congratulations to Niedzica Camacho who passed her PhD viva yesterday subject to minor corrections.

This is a good review of an interesting paper recently out on the new Oxford nanopore technology.

This is a good review of an interesting paper recently out on the new Oxford nanopore technology.  Some of the authors are within ear shot of where I work.
http://www.homolog.us/blogs/blog/2014/12/09/new-nanopore-paper-by-phil-ashton/