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If the complaint is upheld, it would stop the roll-out of the H1N1 vaccine nationwide, said Turner, who accused public health officials of hyping the swine flu outbreak. - Maureen from Bookmarklet

Turner insisted that "the FDA did not do the proper testing to show safety and efficacy of this vaccine. When I say test data, I don't mean some professor at some medical school somewhere infected some students and said 'I don't see any problems. - Maureen

Have this Turner fellow visit a local ICU and chat with the folks who are dealing with the "hype" - Maureen

"This is really freaking awesome, and so am I, so gimme the money already you flea-bitten bean-counters!" - Bill Hooker

Continuing along the lines suggested by Steve be sure to include a phrase beginning with "needless to say" - Maureen

Google Wave short cuts - very useful! - Sally Church

I'm on Wave now but no invites to give out as yet, will send you one when I do - Sally Church

this sounds good except it is not for MAC, ;( - Maureen from Bookmarklet

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thanks for posting this Sally - Maureen

Not a "graduate liaison"? ;-) - Mr. Gunn

Wow! When great people meet :) - Berci Mesko, MD

Thanks. It was scary for awhile and unlike Bill I don't have fastmail, only the horrible Outlook Express. - Maureen

I slept peacefully through the "great GMail outage" :-) I mostly use IMAP through Thunderbird these days. - Neil Saunders

I'd come, schedule permitting. I have a tenuous connection at OSU and I'm on an advisory board at Pacific U where I could at least spread the word a little. I know someone at OHSU who'd be interested -- I'll email her if she doesn't turn up in this thread. - Bill Hooker

Hi, Bill--thanks for comment on that. Science Commons Maybe we could have a panel discussion on the various Commons movements: Science, Creative, Neuro and Health. And I agree about the librarian matter. Does anybody have any comment on this sample wording for the proposed conference, "...presents NW Science 2.0 in a one day conference in February 2010. With the help of world class... more... - Hope Leman

That absolutely blows me away. This is one of those moments of awe that drew me into science in the first place. - Bill Hooker

I loved this image too. I've dreamed of being able to zoom in like this. Glad to find folks here who are co-thrilled. - Maureen from iPhone

Thanks! Feels good! - Maureen from iPhone

For other non-twittering FFers like me: "Celebrating today. Our paper was accepted into JBC." - Bill Hooker

Also, congrats. Are you going to pay for Author Choice (http://www.jbc.org/misc...)? Or deposit a postprint (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo...) somewhere? - Bill Hooker

Great book. Listened to it on audio CD during commute. - Maureen from iPhone

A cool list from David Bradley - anyone missing? - Sally Church

I never could see the point of Twibes, it just seemed a way to spam your followers. Maybe a WP wiki would be an easier way to handle the data? - Sally Church

Good luck! We all know you're a great, tenacious scientist, so I'm sure you'll do well. - Mr. Gunn

@Jim -- yes, it's no secret that the company has pretty much stalled. The director (my new boss) uses the analogy of a computer rebooting. It's an adventure! :-) - Bill Hooker

What does this have to do with Michael Jackson? - Maureen from iPhone

Good point, Maureen, and my apologies for the distraction :) - Steve Koch

Even top federal cancer officials say the system needs to be changed. “We have a system that works over all pretty well, and is very good at ruling out bad things — we don’t fund bad research,” said Dr. Raynard S. Kington, acting director of the National Institutes of Health, which includes the cancer institute. “But given that, we also recognize that the system probably provides disincentives to funding really transformative research.” The private American Cancer Society follows a similarly cautious path. Last year, it awarded $124 million in new research grants, ... Dr. Otis W. Brawley, chief medical officer at the cancer society, said the whole cancer research effort remained too cautious. “The problem in science is that the way you get ahead is by staying within narrow parameters and doing what other people are doing,” Dr. Brawley said. “No one wants to fund wild new ideas.” - Maureen from Bookmarklet

Finally heard back from program manager. One piece of advice (which he didn't think was too important) was too remove references to "NSF" from the proposal (just in case someone there DID have a problem). Other than that, it was a green light and yellow light: (a) He strongly favors rapid publication of data resulting from public money & thinks science should be much more open than it is and (b) he's not sure that me posting my ideas in public is a good idea (risk of scooping). Thus, his only worry is effect on my lab. All very reasonable. I was impressed by the strong open science vibe I received from talking with him. - Steve Koch

Thanks, Mickey -- that is really great motivation for us to keep working towards these open science goals! :) - Steve Koch

That's the first and last time I ever blog about anything remotely personal... having second thoughts! - Sally Church

An inspiring and personal post. Thanks Sally - Maureen

thanks Vincent. Your posts are terrific. - Maureen

It was great to meet my OWW and ff pal, IRL! - Maureen

+1 for "laser" - Richard Akerman

Sent from ZaZen - Maureen from email

For me, double to triple that estimate... - Andrew Su

Steve Koch, I just love the wry wit here, " ..let the record show that I do think the system is ludicrous. I'm just used to it." I also love Andrew's cheerful resilence, "And then you also have a couple days to fix any scrambled files, even if that spills over the official deadline. Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised at how smoothly things went in this regard... " You guys put up with so much in the cause of science. - Hope Leman

That, by the way, would be a bloody good postdoc to get if you are into DNA repair and replication, esp in cancer. Link: http://www.ohsu.edu/hr.... - Bill Hooker

I wonder. If you work there too long, is it bad for your eyesight? - Jim Hardy

A smashing success! Thanks to everyone who has participated. This is very cool. If you haven't yet, go ahead and do so. Original post here http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mark Krynsky

done - Orsan Erksoy

Sent from ZaZen - Maureen from email

Analysis of influenza H5N1 viruses from patients in the Chinese mainland found "no mutation that could cause human to human infection". I assume they found no mutations at all, because no one knows what kind of mutation would lead to human-human transmission. - Vincent Racaniello

Yeah, so presumably bird isolates were compared with those from human-human transmission (?). Wonder how sure they are about sequences. Might not take too many changes. Sequences that crop up to enable human-human transmission would be interesting to investigate. - Maureen

I'm reading this now and amazed by the parallels with current discussion on restructuring medical schools and research institutions. Have we learned nothing? The first two chapters about the history of medicine would be very interesting to medical and graduate students in the biomedical sciences. For example, until Johns Hopkins transformed medical education in the late 1800s most medical schools were essentially "trade schools" with minimal entrance standards and scant training in scientific method. At Johns Hopkins the business model changed from having student fees pay for free-lance faculty salaries (a conflict of interest really!) to a model where scientists and clinicians were supported by full-time salaries by the institution to do basic research. As a result of its transformative model, Johns Hopkins went on to make significant medical advances and changed medical education in this country. - Maureen from Bookmarklet

History is a great teacher, Maureen. - Sally Church

I read this one by Gina Kolata. It's pretty good http://www.amazon.com/Flu-Sto... - Paulo Nuin

"Senate Increases NIH Funding in Economic Recovery Package February 4, 2009 – Last night, the United States Senate approved an amendment sponsored by Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA), Tom Harkin (D-IA), and Richard Durbin (D-IL) to provide a total of $10 billion to the National institutes of Health (NIH) in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The measure, which was approved unanimously by voice vote, adds $6.5 billion to the $3.5 billion already contained in the legislation for NIH research project grants, and both extramural and intramural construction projects. ASH joined the research community in sending a letter to Senate leaders earlier this week urging support for this increased funding." - Maureen from Bookmarklet

Talking of the ebola virus, Robert Scoble bumped in the co-discoverer (Peter Piot) at Davos this week, but didn't realise who he was at the time, shame or it would have made a very interesting interview http://friendfeed.com/e... - Sally Church

Does anyone have any experience with setting up a FF room (rather than a blog) for uni classes they teach? i.e. a way of fielding questions from students? - Matthew Todd from Bookmarklet

Hey wait, what's Cynthia Nixon doing posing as University of Michigan professor Fara Warner. - j1m

Nice new features. - Maureen from Bookmarklet