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By conventional photolitography, Sokolov and colleagues from Argonne National Laboratory, report on PNAS the design of microscopic gears (6 ug mass) able to extract useful work from swimming Bacillus subtilis. According to their calculations, few hundred bacteria work together in order to turn the gear at a velocity of 1-2 rpm, generating femtowatt power. - Iddo Friedberg from Bookmarklet

I guess the answer is "yes"... http://www.rowland.harvard.edu/labs... - Iddo Friedberg

I guess I was into science, until I left my job. Now, I'm into food and clothing. - Mark A Jensen

I feel science communication is not taken seriously enough! - Jan Wessnitzer from iPod

I was thinking "nah, it's probably about as bad as I thought" - but you're right! - Neil Saunders

Thanks Iddo. I lost count of how many times annotation errors came up in my discussion with experimentalists who lack experience with such databases. (Not surprisingly, they usually think these errors are negligible, especially when it comes to THEIR proteins.) Now I'll just send them a link to your post... - Mickey Kosloff

I learnt a bit about Belbin roles when I went to UKGrad school. I'm a shaper/plant. - Michael Barton

You might also be interested in Myers Brigg types - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Michael Barton

the publisher was Wiley, I believe, and the reproduction was on a blog. When I get out of this meeting I'll try to dig up the details. - D0r0th34

#smallworld Which reminds me that I must chase up the lead Author of a Paper, nay, Manuscript that Shelley, I and two others have yet to finish and submit to BMC. Prof AG in Milan will be hearing from me soon ! - Graham Steel

Wowsy... - Graham Steel

Noah Gray has a different "tangle" on this as can be seen here:- http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Graham Steel

Wow, that's really weird. - Ruchira S. Datta

What is strangest to me about this story is how did a supervisor get all the other authors to go with the fake results ? - Pedro Beltrao

Me too! But I barely read anything :-) I must be networking too much. - Neil Saunders

cool! Just got myself three t-shirts for X-mas :-) - Björn Brembs

"Warren L. DeLano 21 June 1972–3 November 2009" - Pedro Beltrao from Bookmarklet

"I’ve gone back to using another wonderful visualization package, PyMol. I find that it hits the sweet spot between easy setup of the scene I’d like and generating nice figures. The specific feature that I’ve come to rely on quite heavily is the built-in ray tracer. There are three available ray tracing modes in addition to the default, each of which has its uses. Mode 1 will place a black outline around your structure, which can help make the secondary structure elements visually distinct. Mode 2 is really interesting, in that it only renders the outline. I find this especially helpful if I want to show something in an overlay without obscuring what is behind it. Mode 3 produces “quantized” color in addition to the outline, giving your figure a very cartoonish appearance. I find that this one has to be used with care :) " - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Not entirely surprising, but hey, that's part of what membership is for. - Mr. Gunn

Have there been any articles contributed by members that had open peer-review included? That would be very cool & seems like the supplementary online material could support publishing the manuscript versions along with referee reviews. Given that there's no risk the article would be "rejected," this seems like a really great mechanism for testing open-peer-review process. And I'd think that there has to be at least a handful of academy members who'd enjoy trying this out. - Steve Koch

I approve this message. - Chris Lasher

Unfortunate that the bill did not pass. How others could listen to this eloquent, funny, well-reasoned, and impassioned speech and not see the validity of the arguments is beyond me - unless, of course, 1) they weren't even listening, or 2) reason doesn't factor into it. Sadly, both are probably true. - Shirley Wu

Great compilation. Tnx! - Mickey Kosloff

Very cool work, thanks for blogging it! - Ruchira S. Datta

Good to see that bioinformatic studies can make it into Nature. Probably helps if your surname is Koonin or Church ;-) - Neil Saunders

Pretty plots. - Neil Saunders

It's not just author IDs though. If we want this taken seriously we probably ought to include dois in these conversations as well. Need to uniquely identify both author and paper. - Cameron Neylon

Utterly fascinating data-driven look at the dating market from someone who helps run a dating site. - Michael Nielsen

Oh, yeah. Not at all rigorous, but interesting nonetheless. Definitely suggests to me that someone could write quite a few good papers on detailed studies of these kinds of effects. - Christopher Granade

@shwu Just wear a sleeve while playing ultimate...that's what I do... - Noah Gray

makes you look manga :-) - Björn Brembs

Hair, schmair... :-) - Bill Hooker

the genome we have all been waiting for :) - Pedro Beltrao