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  • Second Life commentary in Nature Materials

    25 Nov 2009
    Joanna Scott's blog
    Quite exciting news today – the latest issue of Nature Materials has devoted its first four pages to Second Life! There is a freely available editorial and a commentary which is unfortunately behind the pay wall. Both are in the print journal as well, right at the front. Nature Materials, our ne...

  • NSF looking for grants on "Life in Transition" re:climate change

    25 Nov 2009
    The Tree of Life
    Just got this email from the National Science Foundation saying that NSF is looking for more grants relating to responses of organisms/ecosystems to climate change.The Divisions of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) and Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) in the Directorate for Biological ...

  • Who Watches the Watchers?

    25 Nov 2009
    Bayblab
    Much was made, and rightfully so, about the warrantless wiretap program undertaken as part of President Bush's war on terror. (A program that has been defended by the current Obama administration)That's pretty bad stuff.Here's something worse: Wikileaks.org - a group that publishes leaked govern...

  • Earth's Size Relative To The Planets And The Stars

    26 Nov 2009
    Field of Science
    The top 4 animations that show the size of the earth in relation to the planets, the sun and the stars. Footnote: For even more perspective, see this CELL SIZE AND SCALE and the UNIVERSCALE.

  • Milky Way Panorama

    25 Nov 2009
    Field of Science
    All-Sky Milky Way Panorama 2.0 is a digital compilation of over 3,000 images comprising the highest resolution digital panorama of the entire night sky yet created. Interactive zoom version. Credit & Copyright: Axel Mellinger (Central Mich. U) Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 121, 1180-1187 (2009)....

  • Worst new omics word award: Negatome

    25 Nov 2009
    The Tree of Life
    Last week I asked for people to post suggestions for bad new omics words as candidates for my "Worst new omics word award". And there were some great ones posted there by MAT kinase (physiomics, orfeomics), Mr. Gunn (degradomics, though he noticed it was already suggested), anonymous (incidental...

  • Please send me a special edition copy of the Origin.

    25 Nov 2009
    Genomicron
    If you managed to get an extra copy of the “special edition” of the Origin that was handed out on US and Canadian campuses, I would appreciate receiving one! WANT: Please send me a special edition copy of the Origin. is a post from Genomicron.

  • A short but glorious rant

    24 Nov 2009
    Genetic Future
    Misha Angrist has a very brief but eloquent rant in response to the genomics nay-sayers in this Nature News piece on the bankruptcy of deCODE Genetics.Here's a taste:I agree: GWAS is of limited value and this probably contributed to deCODE's demise. But whatever deCODE's fate, if whole human geno...

  • On styles of leadership

    24 Nov 2009
    The Scientist
    Following on from a number of posts about mentors or mentorship, I got thinking about my own experience of being on the receiving end of leadership. I should think that most of us who have had the fortune to work in academentia are familiar with Alexander Dent’s ‘Nine types’ series. Nine differen...

  • In which I pimp my data

    24 Nov 2009
    Mind the Gap
    I sat down the other day to prepare a figure for a paper I’m co-authoring, confident I’d have it dispatched in a matter of minutes. You can see where this is going already, can’t you? It was a relatively clean Western blot result – a black band on a grey background, and no other offending pixels....
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