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Cancer drug cures Type 1 diabetes in mice: Scientific American Blog
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"A new study shows that the cancer drugs imatinib (also known as Gleevac by Novartis) and sunitinib (Sutent, made by Pfizer) halt diabetes in mice." - Maureen via Bookmarklet
It seems more like prevention to be honest - a stay of execution for the remaining beta cells if the autoimmune problem can be held back, but I'm not sure what it can do once most of the beta cells are destroyed. Of course it might open the way for replenishment (transplantation or recovery of beta cells from precursors)... not sure. Interesting though! (Disclaimer: Just my ideas, not necessarily that of my employer's) :-) - Jo Brodie
Yes, the claim for "halting diabetes" will have to be examined. It'll be good to see the actual PNAS article...this was a press splash before publication. - Maureen
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Pedro Beltrao posted an entry on Connotea: pedrobeltrao's bookmarks
Hepatitis C virus infection protein network
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We have over 1100 HCV-Hu ppi in PIG, whereas the authors have far fewer. Not sure why. (PIG aggrepates ppi from public databases like bind and such.) - Timothy Driscoll via Alert Thingy
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There have been so many recent -omics studies of host-pathogen interactions (both physical and functional) that it would be very worth while to attempt some integration/comparative studies. One thing that is typically seen in these studies is that pathogen proteins interact preferentially with host proteins that are already highly connected. They have still to offer some biological explanation as to why this happens. - Pedro Beltrao
Timothy - do you or any of your sources transfer interactions by homology ? - Pedro Beltrao
Not to my knowledge; they are all expeirmentally confirmed interactions in PIG. - Timothy Driscoll via Alert Thingy
ack; PIGs interactions are a non-rendundant set. never mind. :-) - Timothy Driscoll via Alert Thingy
Then again, virus and host first interact via extra-cellular receptors, which are amongst the fastest evolving regimes in the eukaryotic cell and badly assessed in Y2H-screens. Regarding pathogen proteins and their degree - did any screen ever reveal a class of proteins that preferentially interacts with less connected proteins? - Roland Krause
Roland - That is a good point. I guess one possible test would be to take a similar number of random host proteins (as the pathogen proteins tested) and see how they interact with the other host proteins. This would provide with a random model to test if the pathogen-host interaction properties are significantly different from any random interaction screen. - Pedro Beltrao
The randomization model needs to capture more than just the degree distribution - but I cannot come up with a complete list of how to address the problem as of now. All screens, no matter what is studied connect to proteins with higher degree and than expected. - Roland Krause
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Now - The Rest of the Genome - NYTimes.com
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Pedro Beltrao posted an entry on Public Rambling
Open Science - just do it
November 12 at 4:46 pm - Link
Pedro, I want to buy your supervisor a beer/coffee/beverage of choice. Kudos all round! - Bill Hooker
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interesting. More details please! Also have a look at FANCL, the E3 of the enigmatic (and fascinating) Fanconi pathway. I've been looking for a project to do in the open with a collaborating lab. Maybe we could find a mutual interest. Let me know what you think. - Maureen
Pedro, is this you? http://tinyurl.com/65m8fr - Maureen
Yes, that is me Maureen. Thanks for the suggestion, maybe when I have something set up I might try to look at FANCL. - Pedro Beltrao
Awesome stuff pedro... I never get time to be open with my science..but the desire is always there - Hari
very nice - Jean-Claude Bradley
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Deepak posted an entry on business|bytes|genes|molecules
Industry watching: Knowledge workers in virtual pharma
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Zee from WeDoCreative posted a link
The Unofficial Guide to Friendfeed Part 1....What Makes Friendfeed Special
The Unofficial Guide to Friendfeed Part 1....What Makes Friendfeed Special
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this is step 1 of my mission to get more people on here. - Zee from WeDoCreative
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Great job, Zee. Let's evangelize as many people as we could.. - Leandro Ardissone
Brilliant! - Iain Baker
Someone with influence Digg that! - xero
How many steps do we have to look forwards to? - Toby Graham
right now, 2 more Toby. Ways to Use Friendfeed and Tools, Hacks and Apps - Zee from WeDoCreative
Thanks Zee, didnt know about the feedback room, have already submitted one thing to them :) - Simon Wicks
cheers Simon - well don't you worry...lots of awesome tips to come - Zee from WeDoCreative
Sounds good. Can't wait - Toby Graham
Anyone with digg weight fancy digging this? - Zee from WeDoCreative
Go Digg here --> http://digg.com/software/Unoff... - Susan Beebe
Awesome - thank you Susan! - Zee from WeDoCreative
Glad to promote your FF guide! nice job! :) - Susan Beebe
That's brilliant Zee, awesome job - Niki Costantini
Awesome. - Mona N.
Ha! Great post, Zee! Can't wait for the rest of the series! - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ ᴷᴵᴹ ᴬ
fabulous post, Zee - concise, accurate, informative - and those are all the reasons I like friendfeed, too! - LauraBrarian
thanks Laura, hopefully more goodness to come! :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
Great post Zee. FriendFeed is so much more than a simple lifestreaming aggregator. I think a lot of people are confused by it at first. It's definitely what you make of it. I think the most important thing that people have to understand about FriendFeed is that participation is the key. As you state in the first point, "as long as you contribute and have something interesting to share - you’ll be paid attention to." I look forward to hearing what else you have to say about FF. - Mark Wilson
much appreciated Mark, yeah, to be honest I'm looking forward to the next post more than anything :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
Okay Zee, your reply (on Scoble's feed) made me laugh (in a good way) and actually come over here and read this. Thanks for not stressing on my comment. :) - Bill Jackson
I love that we all understand what FF is trying to do....but there are people who are prepared to try and break it out...Zee is one of those. Zee, keep on doing yr do. :))))))))))) - Iain Baker
Cheers Bill, i appreciate that. Good to meet ya :) And Iain, thanks a million mate. - Zee from WeDoCreative
Nice post. I am ready to hear what you have to say about the rooms piece. I wanna learn more about that too. - Amani
Nice article zee..I found it very useful since I am still trying to use all of the elements of FF more efficiently. - Larry Lewis
Bravos, Zee! - Dave Martin
man, you guys are too kind.. :) Save a few cheers for the next part! :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
Zee = win - Mo Kargas
If you're collecting tips, how about this: Create your own private 'to do' room where you can re-share posts you want to read or follow up on later. Or does someone have a better way to do the same? - Ken Morley
Definitely an awesome point Ken, but am one step ahead of ya...it's in the next post 15 Ways You Should be Using Friendfeed :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
Geez, and I thought I'd finally had an original idea :o) - Ken Morley
aww...i'm sorry... :P - Zee from WeDoCreative via IM
Welp. I did what I could. Your excellent post about this great group of people has been shouted to those listening to my "noise". :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker
i need to learn how to hide is part 2 out yet thanks :) - Richard via twhirl
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Judge throws out charges against nude bicyclist, saying it has become a Portland tradition
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you've got to love Portland.... - Maureen
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“I'm considering setting up a facebook page for our Biochemistry Dept as a recruiting tool. Any other ideas?”
November 11 at 9:37 am - Link
Why not LinkedIn? - Paulo Nuin
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Sure, post to the BioJobs room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/bi... - Chris Lasher
+1 LinkedIn, NatureNetwork, NatureJobs - Pierre
Yes, good idea too. Both have advantages. I was thinking FB because I can imagine posting movies of labs and dept. Seems like an easier interface than LI for posting/linking. - Maureen
What is the incentive for anyone to add it, and how would it reach the people you're trying to reach? - Donnie Berkholz
Thanks for mentioning Nature Jobs/NN, Pierre. Maureen, the NatureJobs (what was called classified) basic ad is free and they get a lot of traffic. At Nature Network the Nature Jobs team has a careers forum but it is more for general careers advice and discussion, rather than for specific jobs. - Maxine
PS I am not sure how many active biochemists seeking jobs are using FB ;-0) - Maxine
Thanks for many helpful comments. The idea is to recruit students via a mechanism that gives information as well as a more complete sense of the departmental faculty. I think students might prefer FB (if it is done right) to the stiff old typical faculty pages. I figure students will google us when they are looking for a graduate school. Faculty would have an incentive to add to it to attract students. - Maureen
Personally, I wouldn't take any job I saw on Facebook as serious. LinkedIn and the usual scicen job sites have a more professional feel and status. - Paul Bacchus
So this is to recruit students, as opposed to staff, hence use of FB rather than LinkedIn - Neil Saunders
What about http://www.biomedexperts.com/ ? - Shameer Khader
Wherever you set it up, please share the link. There are always interested folks lurking around on FF *wink*wink* - Ricardo Vidal
What about http://www.biocrowd.com - cliff mintz
@Neil, yeah, for students. I guess I shoulda mentioned that at the outset. @cliff: looked into biocrowd but had to sign up and then nothing happened so far (8 hrs ago). @KS, forgot about biomedexperts. Seems like a good idea but somehow I always find it awkward to get into and use. Plus the stuff they have on me is not a very good summary. The network maps are cool though. - Maureen
The key in setting up FB for the biochem faculty is getting them to use it. One would think that something easy/fun to maintain would be appealing compared to the absurdly out of date, web-master controlled faculty web pages. - Maureen
@maureen sorry about the confusion. We are in alpha testing right now. Should be open for beta in a couple of week. I invite you to post in the beta stage. - cliff mintz
@cliff, OK I will revisit. - Maureen
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Kaitlin Thaney posted an entry on sniffing the beaker
New Modes of Scholarly Communication: Blogs, Wikis and Web 2.0
November 11 at 4:09 am - Link
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“Are wikis common?”
November 10 at 4:05 pm - Link
Our head of school asked me "are wikis common?" I said it was hard for me to be objective ;-) Assuming that he meant "in an academic life science research setting", what do you think? Do your lab, or labs that you know, routinely use wikis? Are the biologists that you know aware of them? - Neil Saunders
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to most non-techie people I know, wiki = wikipedia... - Andrew Su
I would say uncommon but becoming more widely used and fairly widely known in some specific settings. Fairly alien in experimental biology but well established and known as you move more towards computational biology? - Cameron Neylon
In my academic experience, wikis are well known but not always common. My department has a student wiki, my lab has a wiki (for posting tips, etc), and a bunch of classes I have taken have used wikis. But they all tend to get only sporadic participation. Research-wise, there are lots of wikis for annotating genes/structures like WikiGenes and TOPSAN but again, sporadic participation. - Shirley Wu
Perhaps more accurately, wikis are common but not commonly used (in the sense of both passive browsing and active participation, though more so for the latter) - Shirley Wu
In corporate environments, HEAVILY used, pretty much everywhere I have worked - Deepak
Deepak, I'm a bit surprised and interested. Heavily and *successfully* used? In my neck of the corporate woods, several wiki-like initiatives, none of which really have gotten to critical mass... (Even within my computational group, 90% me, 10% other group members) - Andrew Su
Every place I've worked developers have used wikis for every project and that's been the place of record and where they capture all their discussions. At current place place to go for all kinds of stuff is Wikis including tips and tricks for your iphone on the corporate network etc etc. In all cases wikis existed before I got there. Outside of dev, most life science places no usage. - Deepak
My experience is similar to Shirley's. In academia the _existence_ of wikis is not uncommon, but the participation is limited and sporadic. I've tried to promote a lab wiki on two occasions (two different labs, one for protocols/info and one for shared data), and twice I'd say I failed to get any decent participation ... not really sure if it was my ability to rouse contributors that was at fault, or something else. - Andrew Perry
Our group has a wiki and it's very difficult to encourage participation, so I don't think it's your people skills at fault :) It only keeps going because the boss is enthusiastic and relentless with a carrot/stick approach; e.g. contributions are a factor in handing out travel money. - Neil Saunders
We have a wiki and works great. Is not updated everyday, but people in the lab post announcements as they need (lab meeting changes, new emails, etc.). We are the only ones in the department with a wiki, though. - Pepe JG
I know a several major labs that use wikis for at least 6 years. Ours is used by the whole institute. The usual rules of participation (90/9/1) do apply but wikis are nothing special in this regard. - Roland Krause
I think we're on our third incarnation of various bits of wiki software, and we've finally hit on the right software for both our wet lab and bioinformaticians. Sometimes it's just finding the software everyone likes, and then it just works. But it was a long road to get people using it! It's Dan's favorite, DokuWiki - Allyson Lister
Ally, my favourite too. - Neil Saunders
We have a wiki in our lab, too, and although it had a hard time to get off the ground, it is now being used on an almost daily basis in both ways, as people use it to structure their ideas and experiments and to digest the literature. No other wikis in this department (psychiatry), as far as I know. - Daniel Mietchen
Another thing: Citizendium has an initiative by which students can get credit for writing articles on their wiki: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki... . Given that writing a well-structured "encyclopedic" entry on a subject is a great way to learn about it, this initiative may really have promise. - Daniel Mietchen
There's at least three run out of this corner of the building (in Biochemistry @ UCL) -- all using different platforms naturally (Doku seems nicest) -- but outside of the bioinformatics and IT people I don't know how well known they are... - Andrew Clegg
In my experience - no. I don't know anyone that uses a wiki; and like Andrew said, I think most people think "wiki" is short for wikipedia. - Paul Bacchus
So why do developers feel that collaboration is good and others don't? I learnt how to get into our corp firewall from my personal mac, cause there was an internal wiki on it and many such subjects, not just work related, so why not other folk? I can think of syntax being one. What about others? - Deepak
Our student Web site is a wiki. It was absurdly easy to set up. Our cyberinfrastructure group here uses a wiki, too, and it works well for information pushing. - Timothy Driscoll via Alert Thingy
My lab uses OWW wiki. Crucial organizational and communication platform in my opinion. - Maureen
Hey Neil. Tell our head of school that my lab book for the last year and a half has been a wiki ;-) - Mitchell J Stanton-Cook
Agree with Deepak - at NPG we use wikis for all technical, editorial and publishing projects, sharing info (eg meeting reports), scheduling, everything you can think of. Heavily used tools - esp as we are distributed over so many offices. In my experience of talking to scientists, most do not use them or don't know what they are (apart from, as mentioned above, Wikipedia - some of them have heard of that;-), and the more tecchy ones such as those on FF ). - Maxine
Sure. Our lab wiki is at biowiki.org, and most consortia that I've worked in use wikis (e.g. ENCODE, modENCODE, 12-Drosophila comparative genomics). I don't know what baseline people are using in terms of contributions, but I would say it's considerably easier to get people to edit a wiki than a barebones HTML site. Of course, if wikipedia is your baseline, then all other wikis are abject failures. - Ian Holmes
Isn't defining something as a WIki just saying something is a group project? - sofarsoshawn
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Chris Brogan posted an entry on chrisbrogan.com
50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business
August 20 at 7:30 pm - Link
Quote from Kyle Lacy: "This post was amazing!" http://friendfeed.com/e/378ccc... - Ontario Emperor
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don't... they will delete your account. you are talking about corporations here? or real business? How is it that Hamas and Hezballah have a twitter account and somehow twitter thinks I am more dangerous? What a joke this twitter network really is. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
Hey.. what can I say? I was left speechless. I don't understand how Chris has all this information flowing. ALL THE TIME. - Kyle Lacy
24/7: Chris Brogan's brain: Open all night. - Kyle Lacy
Noah is right. Corporations are not business. This might be better used for the government of China. twitter is not good for small business. - PinkGarden
I completely disagree. I have gotten business from Twitter.. it is about authenticity and creating relationships.. not spamming. - Kyle Lacy
The problem is most small biz owners have yet to learn how to communicate via social media.. they can learn though. - Kyle Lacy
time time time... small biz don't have the time... Chris Brogan mentioned large corporations. your point is moot Kyle - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
and solo act too, Noah. But Kyle, if existing strategies that you are familiar with work for you, then fine. Otherwise, I don't know there's other options but to go out from the comfort zone and learn. - Hendry Lee via twhirl
I see a lot of uses for social media.... but it is not advertising and PR. ....education, entertainment... even employment bonding... but promotion is not best here... unless you can really overburden a scene... and that is very very wrong. as for a mom and pop biz... they simply can't get iJustine and Veronica to gee golly wiz the little guy. I'm an artist... and I have optimism... but artists are small business people... and for the most part... this social media experience has been a fail. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
if anything this experience has hurt my reputation... I would never recommend doing this unless this is what you want to do full time... twitter is unforgiving and libelous. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
that isn't to say that it is bad here. I mention iJustine... who is nice enough to leave my drawings on her facebook profile... however... in the long run promotion here has been a hole in my time. this is an incestuous mono-culture. There is no place for any free thought... or persuasion. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
if anything social media is a very efficient brain washing tool. Resistance is futile... you must support this cause or you are blocked and no one reads your comments. it is frankly a sad interaction... and experiment in mob tyranny. The worst aspect of a niche market. Twitter is going to go down in history as a social experiment that made people very miserable and lashed out at the people who put their time into it. ...it remains to be seen if something better can come along.... - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
somehow I have a feeling that what takes twitter's place will not have the kind of zealous idealism that twitter had. the whole idea of free expression failed when twitter left a hole open for @panopticons. free expression and retweeting no longer were legitimate. they crucified the questioner. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
free will in an infrastructure is not a good archetype. the inherent nature of socializing will test the lines... so now we know we want structure... and once that enters the equation then it is no longer social like life itself. online interaction is inherantly built on training wheels... (those training wheels better not be business promotion) - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
btw... I mention free thought and persuasion... the only reason I'm getting away with saying this is because you probably agree with me. it isn't that twitter isn't for big business, but rather that is inherently a mob tyranny and perhaps big corporations are natural to this ecosystem. Why encourage it? It is not good at all. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
Is it okay to mix business with the personal on Twitter? My fed agency doesn't have a handle on how to use socmed tools, so I've just been exploring them on my own. I view it as 50% devoted to my personal life and 50% devoted to promoting the NEA and the arts/culture in general. Does it discredit the NEA work that under the same handle I twitter about which workout videos I'm currently tackling? Shankman seems to do both, and that's the model I'm following, but curious to hear your thoughts as well. Thanks for the posts--I'm really learning a lot. - Paulette Beete
in-house, ok, but if any business tweets me, i will hate them subconsciously .. or even quite consciously ... now service, in response to a problem, like firefox does, is quite nice. - Gregory Lent
@Paulette- I say yes. In fact, it's required. You have to be human. - Chris Brogan
Paulette twitter is perfect for a government agency. That is why twitter accepts terrorist governments like Hamas but not artists like myself. I would keep your personal maintenance to yourself as a rule of thumb. BTW I just farted. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
@Noah small biz do not have time because they are confused on how to utilize the tool. - Kyle Lacy
Kyle the way to use the tool is through group peer pressure and intimidation. "mom and pop businesses" just don't know who to do that well. so I guess we agree Kyle. If they knew how to intimidate and humiliate any self interested individuals then they wouldn't be small business, they would be the Democratic party. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
haha. touche, Noah, touche. - Kyle Lacy
Thanks for sharing, nice suggestions and ideas. I'm going to tweet this ☺ - Patty
I'm not sure I like being right this time - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
Tremendous post! At the end of the day, there is no question that Twitter optimizes communication-and what company does not want to optimize their communication channels at all levels?! - Harold Cabezas
Chris: Love your ezines & your 50 ways to use twitter article. You might want to check out the twitter article I posted at http://tinyurl.com/5q33h4 - I appreciate you! - http://twitter.com/gfb3 - Girard Frank Bolton, III.
Nice article, Chris. These are all great ideas to help promote the use of social media throughout business. I think the most important barrier to adoption is the fact that Twitter is a major distraction...IF you allow it to be. However, if you use it at your own pace and under your control it can be quite a useful tool. Cheers, AL - Al Bsharah
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Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com
30 Different Uses for RSS
November 10 at 3:47 pm - Link
A Mike Fruchter guest blog. - Robert Scoble
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Good work, Mike! - Daniel J. Pritchett
None of my fellow writers are "guests". They have all the keys. - Louis Gray
Louis: it's really lame, though, that it says that "Louis Gray posted an entry" here in FriendFeed. I don't know how to fix that, though. - Robert Scoble
There is a way to select "this blog has multiple authors" and have it only pull in those that I write, but you'll see Mashable, TechCrunch etc. don't make any distinction. The alternative is that "guest" posts would not show up on my feed, but only on theirs, and that would lower the visibility. - Louis Gray
When you setup a blog in FF, there's an option to specify it's a multi-author blog, and indicate which author is you - Aaron B. Hockley via IM
Hey Mike welcome to the guest...err keys to Gray manner club. Great post btw. - Mark Krynsky
Louis: I guess I don't like it when people lend their name out on FriendFeed. It fools me and it really does piss me off. It pisses me off when TechCrunch does it, but at least there I don't have the expectation that Mike Arrington is doing all the posts. When you use your name on your blog, like you do, I expect that you wrote the content there. - Robert Scoble
Robert: That is why users need more settings to modify the incoming feed from people they subscribe to. Similar to imaginary friends, and more. - Rolf Schewe
Robert, by now you should know to check the author, regardless :) Mike, congrats on getting the keys to Louis' place. Great post as usual, quite a few I hadn't even thought of. - Tim Hoeck
Robert, as we have more writers on the site, that is one of the debates. Do I keep it with my name or get branded? We'll see. - Louis Gray
Tim: if I stay in China much longer I think I'm going to need the keys to Louis' blog. I can get to his, but can't get to mine! :-) - Robert Scoble
Louis: you should just change the name to "Louis Gray and Friends." - Robert Scoble
Scoble, when you are coming back to the states? - Mike Fruchter
Mike: next Tuesday. - Robert Scoble
@Scoble, That's excellent. We miss you, hurry up back. Leave the chicken feet behind :) - Mike Fruchter
I've never really thought about putting FF feeds into Google Reader, might give that a go, thanks Louis. - Kol Tregaskes
Actually, we (the Mashable writers) do use the multi-author feature of FF ... just Pete's account shows all the posts ... - Adam Ostrow
It would be really cool if you could comment and like within Google Reader. - Kol Tregaskes
Louis (or Mike), do you use RSS for your twitter line instead of the actual twitter software (s) out there? That would seem to get overwhelming veyr quickly, no? - Amani
I use TweetBeep to track specific keywords to my e-mail, and TweetScan to RSS, Amani. - Louis Gray
Louis Gray and Friends sounds wicked like a childrens show, for some reason I get an image of the Banana Splits and Yo Gabba Gabba! You could also make it like the Indie bands - Louis Gray and the Grayettes :) - Joe Dawson (beta)
Nice idea Joe, but I refuse to be called a Grayette. I do not have legs that people want to see in a skirt. - Rob Diana
Congrats Mike!!!!!!!!!!! wooo hooo!!!! :) BTW, I like Roberts suggestion of "Louis Gray and Friends"... nice - Susan Beebe
LOL - Mona N.
This post's style looks like Guy Kawasaki's one. - Igor Poltavskiy
Hmm...ok.... - Kamath ॐ
New "TechCrunch" on LouisGray.com is a good idea. - Igor Poltavskiy
Great job Mike! - Corvida
Duude. 67 likes. - Daniel J. Pritchett
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“Announcement for the first speaker of our new GBCB guest lecture series. (I think some of you might recognize this guy.)”
Announcement for the first speaker of our new GBCB guest lecture series. (I think some of you might recognize this guy.)
November 7 at 3:32 pm - Link
If any of you are in the area of Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA), do come out. Let me know if you'd like help making arrangements. - Chris Lasher
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:) - Deepak
Nice poster design! - Michael Nielsen
I take only partial credit. Tim Driscoll came up with the brilliant idea of using wordle. After trying a couple of different resources for Deepak, I found gold in his Delicious feed, so we ran with that. Tim, a loyal Mac user, was able to get a lossless PDF of the wordle, which I imported into Inkscape. It took me a couple of draft layouts to come up with the idea of placing Deepak's talk title within the word cloud, and a few more revisions to up the cuteness factor with "Big" and "Connected". - Chris Lasher
Finally with the best job I could do in hand, June Mullins, a resident graphic designer at VBI, worked her magic, adding the bounding box to the wordle graphic and providing greater separation of detail in the information below it. A collaborative process that was a lot of fun. I'm really grateful to Tim and June for their outstanding work on it. - Chris Lasher
That's a great way to present a "snapshot" of visiting speakers. You could use their papers, website, FF, anything -- and potential audience can see at a glance what the person is "about". Brilliant. - Bill Hooker
In many ways, it's better than the "About the Speaker" bios. Those often contain interesting tidbits, but they often contain loads of really boring stuff, too. - Michael Nielsen
Go Deepak. - Richard Akerman
This inspired me as well, thank you: http://www.enroweb.com/blogsci... - Enro
Also makes a good "one figure" at www.epernicus.com, if you're stuck for ideas - Neil Saunders
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Seminar about online collaboration
November 6 at 11:55 am - Link
I'll ask around. We had someone talk about educational applications of Second Life earlier this year, so it could be an interesting follow-up. - John Dupuis
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yeah, I guess "greater" doesn't encompass Maryland? there are a bunch of folks who study cscw and online communities for a living around there, though, so you should be able to find a good audience. - Christina Pikas
Thanks, John! - Michael Nielsen
Christina - While I'd very much like to speak in Maryland some day, probably not next month. - Michael Nielsen
or we could get you to give a talk in the UK - not sure where the money would come from but hey, minor issues really...would certainly like to hear it - Cameron Neylon
Of course, we'll probably want to wait until the strike is settled before setting any dates... - John Dupuis
A while ago, a student at OISE (education program at UofT) contacted me about some open access / open science things. I said I would meet him for lunch sometime in November, but haven't gotten around to realizing it *is* November. Anyway, he might know of some online-collaboration-interested people, so I'll bring it up. - Eva
John - I haven't really been following it, but it sounds like York is pretty shut down at the moment. - Michael Nielsen
Eva, thanks! - Michael Nielsen
Cameron - I don't have a funding source immediately in mind, which is why I wanted to stay local, but if you can think of anything, it'd be great to make it over there! (Ditto Maryland, Christina.) - Michael Nielsen
I suggest Michael gives the talk online using a webconferencing platform (seems appropriate given the topic). What do people think? - Matt Leifer
Matt, I'd be very happy to do that, but for the first run through I'd rather do it live, so I can talk directly with people. If you want to organize something for after that, drop me an email, and I'd love to talk... - Michael Nielsen
Yeah. Sigh. The last strike was 11 weeks. - John Dupuis
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Establishing a Consortium (0 replies)
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Over recent years funding of Systems Biology has increased significantly, with a number of countries also investing in a variety of national initiatives to boost skills in this discipline. Much of the effort, however, is fragmented and lacks standardisation. Delivering a comprehensive, integrated systems biology toolbox that can be applied consistently to the challenges of modern medicine and drug discovery is a complex, “big science” project, comparable to, but more challenging than other major biological endeavours undertaken in the last 20 years. Arguably, if it is ever to reach its full potential and deliver genuine impact, this challenge demands the establishment of a consortium to coordinate effort and establish agreed standards. Views on the feasibility of this proposal and how to it could be achieved are invited. - Maxine
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Women Leaders spoke out against Palin and seem to have had a decisive impact. See what they had to say
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*is envious* I've only spent a few days in NY, but I liked it a lot. - Bill Hooker
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“Love the Google logo today ;-)”
Love the Google logo today ;-)
November 4 at 8:27 am - Link
why the hell in Luxembourg I cannot see it??! :-) I can't vote, I know ;) - Luca Conti
I wish people in Luxembourg and all other countries could vote in the US elections today as well ;-) - Bora Zivkovic
Screw that - the USA stands tall against Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker and his sensible economic policies - Jeremy Leipzig
Will Google have a new logo tomorrow, something about the New Day in America? - Bora Zivkovic
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The Life Scientists: Attila Csordas posted a message
“How does the idea of a live FF's Life Scientists meeting or a complete unconference sound to you? Does it make sense at all? Based on the population stats which venue is above the threshold for such activity: the Americas or Europe or both or sg else? We are scientists but where is life?”
October 31 at 7:25 am - Link
Since it might not be realistic for many people to travel far for this, perhaps we should do regional meetings. Or piggy-back on another conference... - Andrew Su
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We can always to the equivalent of Tweetups at a place like ISMB - Deepak
Given predictions that 1 AUD is heading for 0.40 USD, it makes more sense for you guys to come for a cheap Australian holiday than me go to the US or Europe :) - Neil Saunders
I would enjoy meeting all here face to face, but how do I justify the time and expense? Some greater good must come of it. Hmm. - Chris Lasher
talking about cheap currency, Iceland might be a good place since the currency tanked and it's halfway between Europe and US. Only Neil would have a hard time getting there... ;) - Michael Kuhn
Piggy-backing with a larger conference would be a good idea. What about ISMB? Then again, Americans have difficulties these days to justify international travel, so a useful conference in the US might actually be more feasible. - Roland Krause
ISMB 2010 will be in Boston. :) - Michael Kuhn
I'd prefer Europe because I'd have hard time getting into US, but I'm minority here. Australia actually doesn't sound so bad, only travel would be expensive ;) - Pawel Szczesny
There are two conferences next year, ScienceOnline 09 and Henry's Cromer sands (UK) version. -