See, Java is really not that bad! - Egon Willighagen

I wonder how far 'medical' can be stretched... - Egon Willighagen

"Rate of translation by ribosome Bacteria Escherichia coli 12-21 amino acids per second" - Egon Willighagen

Moved from an older location; this is the spot to see why something on SF is slow, not working, etc. - Egon Willighagen

Swoogle... found it. Uploaded elements.owl... - Egon Willighagen

"I made a slightly different [Yahoo Pipe] that only shows my group posts, helpful for places like FriendFeed. My name is unfortunately hard-coded, so you have to modify the Pipes." - Egon Willighagen

Just go ahead. We can all block you. ;) - dekay

:) - Egon Willighagen

Done. - Egon Willighagen

And now it begins... - dekay

More online (bio)chemical community building. Cheers Rich! - Egon Willighagen

Sounds like Pubmed-Fight http://www.pubmedfight.com/ :-) - Pierre

Nice site! But that would only be part of the fight... - Egon Willighagen

I'm one of those who thinks that multiple metrics would be better than reliance on any single measure, especially the dreadful Impact Factor. I don't think that granting/hiring/tenure committees are likely to succumb to One Number To Rule Them All the way financial insitutions prostrate themselves before FICO. - Bill Hooker

Michael, I think the issue Thomas had was using one number to rank people up front. Certainly the metric is included in grant funding deliberations, but isn't the only deciding factor. PhysioProf, for example, talks about pulling grants from the wrong side of the pay line, showing the importance of non-IF related factors in getting funding. - Mr. Gunn

I agree. Rather than finding illusory 'universal' metrics, it would be more important to have (controlled) access to the relevant information that describes the many aspects of individual scientific impact (publishing, reviewing, commenting, etc...). This is why I find the concept of AuthorID coupled with 'scientific activity feeds' the most attractive. If the information is there, ad-hoc metrics can be defined or perhaps (less geeky) it can be used with a good dose human judgment...;-) - Thomas Lemberger

And our only current serious alternative (organics) consumes oil... what's C1 chemistry keeping? (Or will we boost chemical recyling...?) - Egon Willighagen

Is this actually true? They keep on saying 'peak oil' – but you never know what happens with higher prices and the resulting 'unlocked' technologies. Level UP. - dekay

"One thing I find funny when I read these is that these elements are not really disappearing. We are just converting them into a less useful form — garbage." from http://selenized.wordpress.com... - Egon Willighagen

Yes, of course. Who of us is working on *useful* recycling technologies? And never forget how much you could extract from sea water. - dekay

There was a disturbin article in National Geographic last year... about people from poor areas in India/China/etc buying this stuff, melting things for recycling... just incidentally in the same 'wok's the use for cooking later in the evening :( - Egon Willighagen