This is going to hurt, (or make you laugh).

A fellow trainee suggested to me I should read “This is going to hurt” by Adam Kay. As it had been on my reading list for a while, and in a desperate need for a light and entertaining read, I gave it a go.

Let me just say now, I haven’t enjoyed a book so much in a long time. It is one of those books that you start and you have difficulty putting back down without finishing. It made me laugh out loud, which when you are alone in a public place is not ideal.

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We started a book club!

Book club v 2

Yes- we started a STP bioinformatics book club! Our lovely colleague Chris suggested the idea as a way to encourage us to read books around related topics that won’t be directly covered in our teaching.

Our first book is “Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions” by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. We are planning on discussing it when we meet in Manchester in November, which gives us plenty of time, and we would love it if you want to read it too and tweet us your opinions!

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