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Are you in favor of open access publication?
Then sign the petition to oppose the Research Works Act. Do it now, or the petition will fail. Spread the word. Most of you know that Congress passed a bill in 2008 requiring that papers resulting from...
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If I understand it, can I build it?
It depends on your definition of “understand”… and possibly your definition of “build”. Thanks to Pam Silver, I’ve belatedly become aware of the CAGEN competition. CAGEN, which somehow trips off the...
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Why boycott Elsevier?
Lots of people have suggested that I write something about the recent effort to boycott Elsevier. I don’t usually like to write about the politics of science, mostly because I usually don’t have much...
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Pay it forward
Andrew Murray on why teaching is important. One of his reasons: someone taught you, and you should pay them back by teaching someone else. Watch the video to learn the rest.
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Research Works Act withdrawn
This is good news: the Research Works Act, which sought to prevent the government from requiring that work that they fund should be made publicly available, has been withdrawn. Elsevier withdrew their...
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Computational modeling of signaling course at NIH
In June, the Laboratory of Systems Biology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, NIH) will offer a short course on computational modeling of cellular signaling processes...
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Bad blog craziness…
We’ve been having a few technical issues today, so I wanted to apologize to anyone who’s noticed. A script that was running a backup on the images used on the blog went haywire and started...
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For fans of A Game Of Thrones
this heartfelt video, with the following message: “George RR Martin, please write and write faster You’re not going to get any younger, you know Winter is coming, I’m growing impatient And you’ve still...
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hola
Over 500 people from Mexico visited the blog today to read this post, brought here by Yahoo! Image Search, which is clearly running a different algorithm from Google Image Search. Hola, visitas. I...
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Hemichordate you are
Via the Guardian (UK): a new acorn worm has been discovered and named after Yoda from Star Wars. I wonder what other ways there are to make acorn worms into international news? Of course, our local...
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Quantitative Imaging: From Cells to Molecules
Announcing a new course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: “Quantitative Imaging: From Cells to Molecules”. Applications are due on January 31, 2013. Apply here. Course Description:This course will...
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ChIP-seq quality control
Aaron Diaz (aad1974 AT gmail DOT com) writes: “We at UCSF have recently developed a software tool for ChIP-seq quality control and protocol optimization called CHANCE, which appears in the current...
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