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New and Exciting in PLoS this week
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As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - February 9, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs
Moments of geniusEmail this article to a colleague.
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Sorry no column this week, I’ve got some fun stuff in the pipe, as they say, and a lot on. In case you miss me, here’s my shouty contribution to Radio 4’s “Moments Of Genius”, a eulogy to the startlingly new idea of systematic reviews.
Other bits and bobs…
…I’m on Quote Unquote this week [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - February 8, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science onanism podcast Source Type: blogs
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There are 16 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - February 8, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs
Beauty Science For Valentines DayEmail this article to a colleague.
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Today’s post is a shout out for anyone looking for a good Valentines Day present for their beauty-obsessed, science-geeky gal pals.
Flowers and candy are always nice on Valentines Day, but, being chemists, the Beauty Brains also like presents that combine two of our favorite hobbies (beauty science and kissing.) Like this “Make Your Own Lip Balm Kit!”
It’s got everything you need to build your own lip lock laboratory of love – including skin-softening emollients, yummy flavors, and other ingredients that we talked about in our post on how lip gloss works.
Have you tried any DIY cosmetic kits...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - February 8, 2010 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: How cosmetics work beauty science diy Lip stick/gloss valentines day Source Type: blogs
The Science of Addiction, Free e-BookEmail this article to a colleague.
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Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction
This, 30-page, full-color booklet explains in layman’s terms how science has revolutionized the understanding of drug addiction as a brain disease that affects behavior.
The ‘Science of Addiction’ booklet discusses the reasons people take drugs, why some people become addicted while others do not, how drugs work in the brain, and how addiction can be prevented and treated.
The booklet is available to read, download or order at: http://www.drugabuse.gov/scienceofaddiction/
http://www.drugabuse.gov/scienceofaddiction/sciofaddiction.pdf
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Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - February 7, 2010 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Addictions Alcohol Alcoholism Drugs brain Disease e-book free NIDA science Source Type: blogs
Laboratory Walkover: a pitch for a TV showEmail this article to a colleague.
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I can count in one hand how many times I’ve ever been in a ultra organized scientific lab. In some of them I don’t know how people work and are able to publish results obtained in the lab. Because of that and inspired by the countless reality TV shows, I decided to start pitching the idea of the Laboratory Walkover.
We will come to your lab with a TV crew, a interior designer and a high level authority in your field of research and we are going to stop to nothing to make your lab the best research space on earth. You won’t need to pay a dime for the makeover/walkover/takeover, on the contrary we will give...
Source: Blind.Scientist - February 6, 2010 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Paulo Nuin Tags: Science lab walkover tv Source Type: blogs
Science Commons Symposium Pacific Northwest – Discount CodesEmail this article to a colleague.
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There is a stellar lineup of speakers at the forthcoming Science Commons Symposium here in the Seattle area (actually in Redmond). The announcement is below. bbgm readers in Seattle can use the code bbgmto get a discount on the tickets
In the spirit of Creative Commons Salons — global, informal events focused on bringing together the community around a central topic or focus — Science Commons will be holding a day-long event this February in Seattle. The event will aim to bring a broader understanding on the term “open” and all of its flavors when applied to science. From Open Access publishing and ...
Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules - February 5, 2010 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Deepak Singh Tags: Event Open Science Source Type: blogs
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There are 26 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Sleep Deprivation Impairs Object-Selective Attention: A View from the Ventral Visual Cortex:
Most prior studies on selective attention in the setting of total sleep deprivation (SD) have focused on behavior or activation within fronto-pa...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - February 5, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs
How to get your fill of Sciencebase goodnessEmail this article to a colleague.
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Do you lie at wake at night worrying that you might have missed the latest words of wisdom on Sciencebase? Are you concerned that a new post might have published that you desperately wanted to comment on and now it’s too late? Well…fear not. There are so many ways to connect with Sciencebase and sibling sites Sciencetext Tech Talk and the SciScoop Science Forum that you really can rest easy.
On Facebook – become a Sciencebase fan and you get to read the headlines from SB, ST, SC and more as they appear. You can also comment right there and then without having to hop back and forth between sites.
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Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - February 5, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science fill sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Getting your fill of SciencebaseEmail this article to a colleague.
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Do you lie at wake at night worrying that you might have missed the latest words of wisdom on Sciencebase? Are you concerned that a new post might have published that you desperately wanted to comment on and now it’s too late? Well…fear not. There are so many ways to connect with Sciencebase and sibling sites Sciencetext Tech Talk and the SciScoop Science Forum that you really can rest easy.
On Facebook – become a Sciencebase fan and you get to read the headlines from SB, ST, SC and more as they appear. You can also comment right there and then without having to hop back and forth between sites.
On Twitte...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - February 5, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science fill sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Up And Down The Ladder… Job ChangesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone?
And here is something we hope to make a regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Genzyme hired Lilly’s former head of manufac...
Source: Pharmalot - February 5, 2010 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Alnara Pharma BioClinica Chimerix DLA Piper Fibrocell Science Genzyme GlaxoSmithKline Hemipsherx Biopharma Human Genome Sciences Lupin MedImmune Nektar Therapeutics The Weinberg Group YM BioSciences Source Type: blogs
When the Scales Lie: "Normal Weight Obesity"Email this article to a colleague.
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Just when you started feeling good in your skinny jeans, a new study reveals people of average weight may actually be "normal weight obese."
Apparently, as many as 30 million Americans could be categorized in this way, meaning they're at a higher risk of obesity-related diseases, such as diabetes, high cholesterol and heart disease.Continue reading... (Source: Diet Blog)
Source: Diet Blog - February 5, 2010 Category: Other Conditions Authors: contactus at diet-blog.com Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Making carbon dioxide usefulEmail this article to a colleague.
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My SpectroscopyNOW column is now live. This week self-perception, trapping and using carbon dioxide, cosmic coronene, mopping up radioactive caesium, photosynthesis and magic spectral lines:
Red lenses – US scientists have used MRI to show that apparently the less you use your brain’s frontal lobes, the more you perceive your behaviour through rose-tinted spectacles. They publish details in the February issue of the journal NeuroImage.
Carbon dioxide trap and drop – The reduction of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to a useful chemical industry feedstock material, carbon monoxide, can be catalysed by a ruthe...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - February 4, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science carbon dioxide making Source Type: blogs
Nature: 4 February 2010Email this article to a colleague.
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4 February: Quantum mechanical processes involved in plant photosynthesis, decay could be biasing fossil records, how to fix the internet, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - February 4, 2010 Category: Science Authors: Nature Tags: Science & Medicine Source Type: blogs
New and Exciting in PLoS ONEEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study has broad relevance in comparative genomics and paleogenomics since limited research resources do not allow researchers to sequence the large number of descendant species required to reconstruct an ancestral sequence.
International Migration of Doctors, and Its Impact on Availability of Psychiatrists in Low and Middle Income Countries:
Migration of health professionals from low and middle income countries to rich countries is a large scale and long-standing phenomenon, which is detrimental to the health systems in the donor countries. We sought to explore the extent of psychiatric migration. In our study, we u...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - February 4, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs
How not to report science and medical news, vaccine editionEmail this article to a colleague.
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I realize I complain periodically about when I get into what seems to me to be a rut in which I'm writing pretty much only about anti-vaccine lunacy. This is just such a week, when the news on the vaccine front has been coming fast and furious, first with Andrew Wakefield's being found to have behaved unethically and dishonestly by the British General Medical Council, only to be followed up a few days later with the news that the editors of The Lancet had retracted his 1998 paper, the paper that started the MMR scare in the U.K. and launched a thousand autism quacks. Meanwhile, the cranks will leap to the defense of their ...
Source: Respectful Insolence - February 4, 2010 Category: Surgeons Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
My latest scientific paper: Extended Laying Interval of Ultimate Eggs of the Eastern BluebirdEmail this article to a colleague.
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Yes, years after I left the lab, I published a scientific paper. How did that happen?
Back in 2000, I published a paper on the way circadian clock controls the time of day when the eggs are laid in Japanese quail. Several years later, I wrote a blog post about that paper, trying to explain in lay terms what I did, why I did it, what I found, and how it fits into the broader context of this line of research. The paper was a physiology paper, and my blog post also focused on the physiological aspects of it.
But then, I wrote (back in March 2006 - eons ago in Web-time) an additional blog post on one of my old blogs (repost...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - February 3, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs
Cool quantum biology post from The Scientist.Email this article to a colleague.
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This is awesome. From The Scientist, partial story below:
Biologists have traditionally left quantum theory to physicists. But the complicated interactions between matter and energy predicted by quantum mechanics appears to play a role in photosynthesis, according to a study published this week in Nature -- affecting how energy from the sun makes its way to a cell's reaction centers before being converted to chemical energy that powers cellular functions.
Cryptophye algae from the ocean(species Rhodomonas)Image: Dr. Tihana Mirkovic,University of Toronto"The main surprise was that you could actually see&quo...
Source: I'm Gina Smith - February 3, 2010 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Stinger Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
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There are 24 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Group Hunting--A Reason for Sociality in Molossid Bats?:
Many bat species live in groups, some of them in highly complex social systems, but the reasons for sociality in bats remain largely unresolved. Increased foraging efficiency throu...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - February 3, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs
Science based risk assessmentEmail this article to a colleague.
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Ask people why the enter the lottery and they will usually tell you that “you’ve got to be in it to win it”. As far as it goes that’s true, but it still doesn’t get around the odds of you picking the right numbers being vanishingly (although not quite homeopathically) small at 14 million to 1 against for 6 numbers from a 1-49 selection.
Compare their feelings about their chances of winning the lottery to succumbing to the toxic effects of their favourite tipple or a disease triggered by dietary whim and they may well respond, that such problems are more likely to happen to “other people&...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - February 3, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science assessment risk sciencebased Source Type: blogs
RPSGB reviews homeopathy policyEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain appears to have changed its opinion on homeopathy. The poor quality information on the RPSGB’s website is to be pulled and replaced.
On Monday the Council of the Society decided it did not endorse homeopathy, due to the lack of scientific evidence to demonstrate its effectiveness, and agreed to [...] (Source: Black Triangle)
Source: Black Triangle - February 3, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Anthony Tags: Quackery Science pharmacists Source Type: blogs
Is the Threat of Cyberattack Growing?Email this article to a colleague.
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By Jim HarperThe New York Times dutifully reports that the Director of National Intelligence says it is. But it’s hard to know what that means. The word “cyberattack” has no usefully fixed definition.
And the important questions—plural—include: 1) whether cyberattacks—plural—are growing in number and sophistication more quickly than the capability of infrastructure owners to fend them off and recover from them; 2) which, if any, owners lack incentives to secure their infrastructure and what security externalities they might create; and 3) what levers—such as contract liabilit...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 3, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jim Harper Tags: Foreign Policy and National Security Telecom, Internet & Information Policy cyber threats cyberattack cybersecurity Dennis Blair director of national intelligence House Science Committee intelligence community New York Times technical Source Type: blogs
Dean Koontz on scientismEmail this article to a colleague.
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I read. A lot. I have been known to average a novel a day. What slows me down is a lack of good books to read. Thank goodness for Dean Koontz who is quickly becoming one of my favorites. His recent works are great. I began with the gruesome but thought provoking The Taking, continued on to the dark, but wholly funny and entertaining, Life Expectancy and then on to the Odd Thomas series. Now I am hooked.
Your Heart Belongs to Me, one of his most recent, captured the creepy love affair with death that is the assisted suicide movement like no other fiction book I have ever read. Yesterday , I started his Frank...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - February 2, 2010 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Science and Religion Source Type: blogs
The Constructed Situation of RaceEmail this article to a colleague.
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Christian Sundquist’s interesting article, “The Meaning of Race in the DNA Era: Science, History and the Law” (27 Temple Journal of Science, Technology & Environmental Law 231-265 (2008)) is now available on SSRN. Here’s the abstract.
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The meaning of “race” has changed dramatically over time. Early theories of race assigned social, intellectual, moral and physical values to perceived physical differences among groups of people. The perception that race should be defined in terms of genetic and biologic difference fueled the “race science” of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries...
Source: The Situationist - February 2, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Abstracts History Ideology distribution race Science eugenics Source Type: blogs
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Just checking in on a few of the new PLoS titles.... As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Why We Conform:
What makes us human, what sets us apart from other animal species, and which traits do we share with our closest living relatives? Ever since Darwin introduced the notion of continuity in his theory of evolution, ...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - February 2, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs
Early Valentine’s AlchemistEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Alchemist this week learns of a golden opportunity to make a fundamental industrial feedstock, ethylene, from natural gas, rather than oil.
In microfluidics, a droplet of acid finds its way out of a maze, while an accidental mineral could become the material of choice for magnetic tunnel junctions. In the zone between chemistry and physics, German researchers have discovered a new way to produce free electrons, which might help explain biological radiation damage, and in health PFOA emerges as a risk factor for thyroid problems.
Finally, more than half a million small molecules have found a home in Cambridge, UK thank...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - February 2, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science alchemical happenings Source Type: blogs
Sharks!!!!Email this article to a colleague.
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The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences invite you to a SHARK FRENZY!
"Big, Fast and Bulletproof: What One Biologist Has Learned From 300 Million Years Of Shark Evolution"**
Free lecture by shark expert and "Finding Nemo" technical advisor Dr. Adam Summers,
Assoc. Director of Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington
Friday, February 12^th
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences
11 W. Jones Street, Downtown Raleigh
Space is limited. Reserve your free ticket now at https://tickets.naturalsciences.org
While you're there, get a sneak prev...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - February 2, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science Education Source Type: blogs
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There are 21 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Drinking and Flying: Does Alcohol Consumption Affect the Flight and Echolocation Performance of Phyllostomid Bats?:
In the wild, frugivorous and nectarivorous bats often eat fermenting fruits and nectar, and thus may consume levels of et...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - February 1, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs
Naturally, I love chemicals!Email this article to a colleague.
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This is a continuation on my previous post, “Attention, grocery shoppers!”
So the other night my daughter was complaining of her ingrown toenail that’s been bothering her for the past month.
“Why don’t you soak your foot in Epsom Salts?” I suggested.
“What’s that?” she asked.
“See that blue milk carton atop the fridge?” (That’s where we keep our [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - February 1, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: andrea Tags: Critical Thinking Pain Science Source Type: blogs
Autism and MMR Vaccines: Finally an answerEmail this article to a colleague.
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You may have heard about Andrew Wakefield who tried to find a link between MMR vaccines and autism. He has published several papers. Now it turns out he acted unethically in carrying out his research according to a medical regulator.
Doctor Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 study, published in the Lancet medical journal, said there might be a connection between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) injection and autism.
The suggestion horrified parents and led to a slump in the number of youngsters getting the jab, as well as triggering heated debate in medical circles.
In a ruling Thursday, the General Medical Council attacked...
Source: ScienceRoll - January 30, 2010 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó Tags: Medicine science Source Type: blogs
We're NOT supporting Andrew Wakefield Facebook GroupEmail this article to a colleague.
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I started a group on Facebook for everyone who wishes to record their opinion on the Andrew Wakefield GMC rulings. Anyone who is/is closely connected to an autistic person is especiallywelcome. Join here:Parents and autistic people supporting GMC rulings against Andrew Wakefield I want to show that we do not all support Andrew Wakefield who despite the damning verdict against him, is unrepentant and said in his recent statement "It remains for me to thank the parents whose commitment and loyalty has been extraordinary."The newspapers writing about the guilty man also refer to his support base and in some ways imply that pa...
Source: The Voyage - January 30, 2010 Category: Autism Tags: disablism quackery disability science autism Source Type: blogs
Oh, I found you a new jobEmail this article to a colleague.
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I thought you might be interested in this job advert from the Independent.
It’s from the nice people at Maperton Trust.
You can go and see them for a diagnosis with their magical machines, although the best product is their Head Lice Repelling Unit or HELRU (right) which various people have emailed me about over the years, [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - January 30, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs
Covering Scientific Conferences OnlineEmail this article to a colleague.
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Through Webicina.com, I’ve covered many conferences online such as the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality or the World Congress of Gerontology. Though, covering scientific conferences online needs some guidelines. Here are two recent articles focusing on this issue.
Social Networking and Guidelines for Life Science Conferences
Those of us who spent a large proportion of our time live blogging were asked to write a paper about our experiences. This quickly became two papers, as there were two clear subjects on our minds: firstly, how the live blogging went in the context of ISMB 2009 specifically; and secondly, how our...
Source: ScienceRoll - January 29, 2010 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó Tags: Conference Medicine Medicine 2.0 Web 2.0 science Source Type: blogs
Creation: A Conversation with Darwin's DescendantEmail this article to a colleague.
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This week on PRI/BBC World Science:
This month, the movie Creation opened in theaters across the United States.
The film chronicles the life and work of Charles Darwin.
The movie is directed by Jon Amiel. Paul Bettany stars as Darwin. Jennfer Connelly plays Darwin's wife, Emma.
Creation is based on a biography written by Charles Darwin's great great grandson, Randal Keynes.
Keynes is a conservation biologist who lives in London.
The World's science correspondent, Rhitu Chatterjee, spoke with Keynes about his famous ancestor and the experience of seeing his book turned into a movie.
Listen to that interview here: Dow...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - January 29, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science Education Source Type: blogs
Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Robert J. Lefkowitz for G-protein coupled receptorsEmail this article to a colleague.
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I had a good fortune to hear Dr. Lefkowitz speak once. Great guy. From the press release:
The prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedicine category goes this year to Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at Duke University Medical Center.
This is only the second year the award has been given.
Dr. Lefkowitz's research has affected millions of cardiac and other patients worldwide. Lefkowitz proved the existence of, isolated, characterized and still studies G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).
T...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - January 29, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science Practice Source Type: blogs
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Friday morning, let's see what is new in various PLoS titles. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Live Coverage of Scientific Conferences Using Web Technologies:
Conferences are important hubs of scientific communication, facilitating networking in ways that traditional methods of remote information dissemination can...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - January 29, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs
Mobile Monday Amsterdam impressionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Several day ago I came back home after presenting at the Mobile Monday Amsterdam event titled Mobile Health. That is me on the left
I am still impressed by the whole thing. First of all I have to congratulate the organizers (Marc, Yuri, Maarten, Sam, and Martijn) for doing a great job. They fully supported all the speakers from the first contact to the end of the event. The venue where the event took place was an actual church, De Duif, and it was a spectacular choice. From the moment I entered it, I was just blown away. Beautiful light, colors, art, atmosphere. Everything was ready for a great event. I was the first spea...
Source: Ivor Kovic, M.D. - January 29, 2010 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Ivor Tags: design internet iphone medicine science amsterdam church CPR de duif ivor keynote mobile health mobile monday momo presentatino speaker stage talk vodafone Source Type: blogs
The Wakefield MMR verdictEmail this article to a colleague.
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Here’s a very brief piece I bashed out for the Guardian newsdesk today on the Wakefield finding, the further reading below will be more helpful if you’re interested in the story.
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Thursday 28 January 2009
In medicine, “untoward incident inquiries” tend to look for systems failures, rather than one individual to blame. [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - January 28, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs
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This article introduces and discusses the concept of academic search engine optimization (ASEO). Based on three recently conducted studies, guidelines are provided on how to optimize scholarly literature for academic search engines in general and for Google Scholar in particular. In addition, we briefly discuss the risk of researchers’ illegitimately ‘over-optimizing’ their articles.
Discussion:
ASEO should not be seen as a guide on how to cheat academic search engines. Rather, it is about helping academic search engines to understand the content of research papers and, thus, about how to make this content more widel...
Source: ScienceRoll - January 28, 2010 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó Tags: Google Medical Search Medicine Medicine 2.0 Web 2.0 science Source Type: blogs
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I really like reading some articles posted on Hacker News. Usually they focus on the entrepreneur side of the software/web business, but sometimes there are some nice pointers to scientific stuff. And most of the comments are also really nice, a lot of clever people around there. But this is what you expect of these virtual communities. Anyway, I’m here to talk about PLoS.
Yesterday somebody posted at HN, an article about open access to publications: Open Access to Scientific Publications The good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s a so-so read, but gives some information on the current scenario of open and closed ac...
Source: Blind.Scientist - January 28, 2010 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Paulo Nuin Tags: Science PLoS Publishing Source Type: blogs
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28 January: Engineered bacteria produce better biofuels, functional brain cells created from skin cells, fossils from Northern China reveal colour of dinosaur feathers, and a round-up of what's hot elsewhere in Nature. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - January 28, 2010 Category: Science Authors: Nature Tags: Science & Medicine Source Type: blogs
Microsoft is more detrimental to Science, than the lack of Open Science, …Email this article to a colleague.
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than the lack of funding, than the publishing companies, than old-fashioned scientists, than PZ Meyers, more than Linux, more than Apple, more than anything I know.
Ok, let me explain then. But before that, a disclaimer: I own Windows 95, 98, XP and Vista, and this represents only my opinion, not the opinion of my employers, co-workers and family.
And why is MSFT more detrimental to Science than anything else? It’s simple: the openness of their system. Maybe open is not the right word, transparency might better to explain it. As MSFT has the leadership on the OS market, vendors tend to attach their products (in this...
Source: Blind.Scientist - January 28, 2010 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Paulo Nuin Tags: Science msft Source Type: blogs
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There are 26 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: A Blog Around The Clock)
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - January 28, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs
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There have been rough guides, books for dummies, even howtos for idiots, but Chad Orzel is probably the first to take explain an important corner of human endeavour solely to his dog in How to teach physics to your dog. Ironically, the subject on which he focuses, physics, is a realm usually the preserve of probabilistically ill-fated cats.
Nevertheless, Orzel uses humour and clarity to explain the ins and outs of black holes and quantum entanglement to his dog and along the way teaches us some of the fundamentals the vexed the greats, among them Bohr and Einstein.
Meanwhile, Sean Carroll takes us on a journey from Eternit...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - January 28, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science dog Physics teach Source Type: blogs
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The objective of this study is to model the age-related population of NGFs in the human ovary from conception to menopause. Data were taken from eight separate quantitative histological studies (n = 325) in which NGF populations at known ages from seven weeks post conception to 51 years (median 32 years) were calculated. The data set was fitted to 20 peak function models, with the results ranked by obtained correlation coefficient. The highest ranked model was chosen. Our model matches the log-adjusted NGF population from conception to menopause to a five-parameter asymmetric double Gaussian cumulative (ADC) curve ( = 0.81...
Source: A Blog Around The Clock - January 27, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs
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If you blog about peer-reviewed research, then you’ve probably heard about ResearchBlogging.org by now. It’s an aggregator that pulls together posts from around the world that have added a snippet of code to identify themselves as blogging about peer-reviewed research.
The keen-eyed regulars among you will have spotted the occasional “green-tick” icon next the references I cite in my blog posts here and on the sibling sites Sciencetext and SciScoop, which flags them for the Research Blogging system.
Gratifyingly, Dr SkySkull, an editor on the RB blog frequently highlights my stuff in the EditorR...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - January 27, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science blogging research Source Type: blogs
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Catching up on articles published over the past few days in various PLoS titles.... As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
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Source: A Blog Around The Clock - January 26, 2010 Category: Medical Publishers Tags: Science News Source Type: blogs
7 Sources for Cosmetic Ingredient InformationEmail this article to a colleague.
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Are you curious about cosmetic ingredients? Every product sold in the United States is required to put a listing of the ingredients they use but do you ever wonder what those chemicals are? I know I did. During my college days I would read the ingredients on the shampoo bottle and wonder, what are these chemicals? To find out used to require a trip to the local library, a copy of the CTFA Dictionary and a degree in chemistry. But no longer!
Here are 7 FREE websites that list information about cosmetic ingredients. Some of them are searchable (just type in the ingredient name) while others are listed alphabetically. If you...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - January 26, 2010 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Left Brain Tags: Beauty Research beauty science Source Type: blogs
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In less than one and a half hour MoMo #14 will start at the beautiful location - De Duif. Watch the video below.
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Source: Ivor Kovic, M.D. - January 25, 2010 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Ivor Tags: design internet iphone medicine science amsterdam event mobile health momo speakers talk Source Type: blogs
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The Associated Press and others are reporting that milk products tainted with the toxic chemical melamine are on sale again in China.
Melamine-tainted milk products have been pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children were sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.
I originally covered this scandal in which melamine was added to dairy products to spoof higher protein levels in baby formula milk and other foods back in 2008. Several thousand babies in China became ill, having suffered acute kidney failure, with severa...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - January 25, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science melamine sale Source Type: blogs
