This is a place for me to document my reading.

Currently Reading

• 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Completed

• The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

• Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation. 01/07/21.

• Christopher Hitchen’s God is Not Great

• Twilight of the Gods: An account of WWII in the Pacific.

• Alastair Reynold’s Revelation Space

• Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellents

• The Ultimate Battle, Okinawa 1945: The Last Epic Struggle of World War II

Papers

Read

• High-throughput amplicon sequencing of the full-length 16S rRNA gene with single-nucleotide resolution. The DADA2/PacBio CCS paper. 2/14/2022.

To Read

• Species divergence and the measurement of microbial diversity

• Quantitative and Qualitative β Diversity Measures Lead to Different Insights into Factors That Structure Microbial Communities

• A multiview model for relative and absolute microbial abundances

• Analysis of microbial compositions: a review of normalization and differential abundance analysis

• Lumping versus splitting – is it time for microbial ecologists to abandon OTUs? non-peer-reviewed