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Welcome aboard! - Adam Ratner

Congrats! - Mickey Schafer

Thanks! I'm reading through some of the guidelines for editors and learning a lot. One good thing is that I learned that post-publication comments by the academic editor of the paper is encouraged. I wasn't sure of this, because for the papers I've read on PLoS, I don't think I've ever seen this. - Steve Koch

Chimps go after whatever can be most easily ripped off. First, external genitals, then eyes, ears, etc...then bite the face off. Avoid fights with Chimps. - Christopher A Carr

Scrotum Shredders Week : Discovery Channel *check local listings* - Christopher Harley

The tragedy and comedy of peer review. I'm glad you've kept your sense of humor about it -- the baboon sleepwalking comment is hilarious! - The Neurocritic

Reality is stranger than fiction. I didn't make that up. A colleague who published a rat behavior paper was asked by a reviewer to do just that! Not surprisingly that reviewer was trying to stall the paper because he had a similar story in the pipeline. - Hysell Oviedo

You forgot to mention the part where he actually had to awkwardly address that concern in the rebuttal letter. Without laughing. Or cussing. Didn't want the editor to think he was slacking off and ignoring bits of the review... - Noah Gray

Congratulations! - The Neurocritic

Woohoo! Congrats! - Kubke

What sacrifices do the QA gods like? I too will need to appease them over the next few months. - Bill Hooker

Biscuits, mostly. - Euan

Surely you need to burn an offering of ISO9000 documentation (in a fully documented manner of course...) - Cameron Neylon

J. Neurosci., Vol. 25, No. 19. (11 May 2005), pp. 4766-4778. Genetically encoded fluorescent probes of neural activity represent new promising tools for systems neuroscience. Here, we present a comparative in vivo analysis of 10 different genetically encoded calcium indicators, as well as the pH-sensitive synapto-pHluorin. We analyzed their fluorescence changes in presynaptic boutons of the Drosophila larval neuromuscular junction. Robust neural activity did not result in any or noteworthy fluorescence changes when Flash-Pericam, Camgaroo-1, and Camgaroo-2 were expressed. However, calculated on the raw data, fractional fluorescence changes up to 18% were reported by synapto-pHluorin, Yellow Cameleon 2.0, 2.3, and 3.3, Inverse-Pericam, GCaMP1.3, GCaMP1.6, and the troponin C-based calcium sensor TN-L15. The response characteristics of all of these indicators differed considerably from each other, with GCaMP1.6 reporting high rates of neural activity with the largest and fastest... - Björn Brembs

gCaMp3, newly reported in N Methods is pretty amazing, performance-wise... - Noah Gray

I'm just about done submitting an ERC starting grant. If we get funded, we'll screen all of the available ones for the best performance in characterizing resting-state activity in fly brains (aka fMRI for flies). - Björn Brembs

Just finished counting? - Alexander Kruel

I suppose as long as you're not entering a different universe for everything else you'll have to learn, the residual synapses and the knowledge they represent are enough to build on for prevailing similarities of artifacts, actions and frameworks of the intermediate world in which we reside? Maybe that's why it is so hard to learn about quantum phenomena, grasp relativistic circumstances and make sense of probabilistic behavior within artificial frameworks and of quantum/cosmologic scales? - Alexander Kruel

wow. - Mickey Schafer

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"Why does a scientific society have to go to Facebook for social web technology? Why doesn't it have that technology built-in? After all, social and society don't share the same etymological ancestry for nothing (i.e., the Latin word socius meaning "companion"). I'm sure over 40,000 members are a large enough base where most current tools would work fine. For instance, imagine you could have a buddy-list of other SfN members. Then, when the program of the next meeting is available, you can choose to pre-populate your itinerary automatically with all the presentations by your buddies." - Björn Brembs

Bjorn, I think you're right, if SfN (or ISMB) made a FB app to track the program, speakers, and attendees, I think that would be pretty fricken cool. And, I think, more productive than trying to reimplement a social networking site from scratch. - Andrew Su

"It has been a mainstay of evolutionary theory since the 1970s. Natural selection acts purely on the level of the individual and any cooperation observed between organisms merely hides a selfish genetic motive. There have been two pioneering theories to explain cooperation in the natural world given this framework: the first was William Hamilton's (1964) theory of kin selection and the second was Robert Trivers' (1971) theory of reciprocal altruism. However, both of these scenarios break down where it comes to unicolonial ants. In a paper in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution (subscription required) Heikki Helantera, of the University of Sussex, and colleagues at Rice University have investigated how previous theories to explain cooperation don't apply for these unique supercolonies." - james reilly from Bookmarklet

Often ant colonies differ from most multicellular organisms - since the workers and the queen are not 100% related. - Tim Tyler

On the recent embargo breach involving GWAS data and a PNAS publication (which was recently retracted). - Hilary

Thanks, Cameron. I agree, journals can and should help but as part of a wider process that scientists themselves (as a profession) decide is "best practice". Neil - have had this "code" discussion with eds here before - one view is that the documentation better/more meaningful to scientists (who aren't programmers in the main) - also many programmes are not open-source. Probably other points which I don't immediately recall. Nature Biotech is running community consult at the moment on this, I think. - Maxine

Congrats! - The Neurocritic

Limitations: (1) 140 chars is too limited to accomodate a typical URI, (2) needs to be coupled to author ID, (3) only one rating dimension as of now. - Daniel Mietchen

Wonder what might be a good basis for building a similar service? - Mike Chelen

Just got this link from Elsevier. Looked up some of the prices: First page of my article as a small poster: 25€+tax/shipping. Printed issue with my paper in it: 30€. 50 offprints of my article 300€. Checking the download stats of the article PDF on my homepage: priceless! - Björn Brembs from Bookmarklet

good for them! they figured out that a chunk of their customers are egomaniacs ;) - Wladimir Labeikovsky

...But Punnett Squares *are* sexy :-) , biology is mostly about sex after all http://www.drtatiana.com/ - Duncan Hull

+1 Chris! - Mr. Gunn

"Despite existing guidelines on access to data and bioresources, good practice is not widespread. A meeting of mouse researchers in Rome proposes ways to promote a culture of sharing." Part of the Nature feature on Data Sharing: http://www.nature.com/news... (9/9/09) - Hilary

"The rapid prepublication release of sequencing data has served the field of genomics well. The Toronto meeting participants acknowledged that policies for prepublication release of data need to evolve with the changing research landscape, that there is a range of opinion in the scientific community, and that actual community behaviour (as opposed to intentions) need to be reviewed on a regular basis." - Noah Gray