The Life Scientists

For the web page, you could create a page on github like Egon did: http://egonw.github.com . Establishing a web presence: blog your research and comment the other blog, Q&A sites etc... - Pierre Lindenbaum

Isn't friendfeed too small? Twitter will have a much larger group in any discipline, though in 2010 blogging is not arcane so anyone can set up something good if they want to maintain it; it's just finding a theme you like and not expecting a million readers a month without some effort. - Science 2.0

Freakonomics and its successor Superfreakonomics are two books by the economist Steven Levitt and his partner in crime Stephen Dubner that have a common theme running through them (quote): “People respond to incentives, although not necessarily in ways that are predictable and manifest. Therefore, one of the most powerful laws in the universe is the law of unintended consequences.” Both books give numerous and often amusing examples of the ways that various incentives often result in unexpected outcomes. They choose a wide variety of animals including teachers, sumo wrestlers, estate agents, bible salesmen and yes, monkeys, to illustrate this point... - Duncan Hull from Bookmarklet

You're the toughest liveblogger I've ever seen. :) Keep up the good work. - Attila Csordas

"Mendeley is a handy piece of desktop and web software for managing and sharing research papers [1]. This popular tool has been getting a lot of attention lately, and with some impressive statistics it’s not difficult why. At the time of writing Mendeley claims to have over 35 million papers, added by just under half a million users working at more than 10,000 research institutions around the world. That’s impressive considering the startup company behind it have only been going for a few years. The major established commercial players in the field of bibliographic databases (WoK and Scopus) currently have around 40 million documents, so if Mendeley continues to grow at this rate, they’ll be more popular than Jesus (and Elsevier and Thomson) before you can say “bibliography”. But to get a real handle on how big Mendeley is we need to know how many of those 35 million documents are unique because if there are lots of duplicated documents then it will affect the overall head count...." - Duncan Hull from Bookmarklet

@Pedro yup, I hope Mendeley will continue to grow too (and get better stats along the way) - Duncan Hull

Due to multiple authorship (from different institutions), I cannot post the manuscript here - if anybody is willing to help, I will send the manuscript via email. - Pawel Szczesny

Neil, sure I have. Paulo, I don't know - next week? It's hopefully not very time consuming. Thank you both - will send the manuscript in a moment. - Pawel Szczesny

I'm curious how many are Open Access? - Jim Hardy from Bookmarklet

+2 more: (4) http://www.dovepress.com/stem-ce... (5) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content... Former is the new branch of Cell Transplantation, which exist many years. - Alexey

So where does this fit on http://www.keaggy.com/periodi...? - Eric Jain

Pretty. "The pair also made the realization that they had the most success with fresh crystals that had just completed their two-month growth cycle. The scientists started timing their trips to Chicago to coincide with the period when the crystals were freshest. Nemerow and Reddy began travelling to Chicago at least three times a year, grateful that their hosts in Chicago were willing... more... - Matthew Todd

Very quickly read this - but couldn't the publication decision have been based on whether the paper was well-written or not? i.e. less about the data, and more about whether the paper was good? - Matthew Todd

Some more nuance in the comments. Either way, I'd like to hear the explanation of the editor, who, according to the comments, was a former lab-member of one of the authors of the accepted paper. - Björn Brembs

I think ideally I would run a script which would run some code which generates a png figure, pushes the photo to the host site under a given album/tags and a link to the version of the code that created the figure on the project's github site. Since the codes take a long time to run, simply having the code version is no longer sufficient for me. - Carl Boettiger

Flickr seems to be a nice solution. With one command-line call I can have a full slideshow of results embedded into the notebook! http://openwetware.org/wiki... Each image can collect comments and other tags and be organized into groups. the command-line upload also doesn't seem to spam my FF/twitter feed even though I added flickr to FF. guess that's a good thing. - Carl Boettiger

Five scientists discuss their hopes and aspirations for biotechnology in a post-genomics era. - Vedran Rodic from Bookmarklet

Great episode. Got somewhat irritated by Marc's IP comment on the beginning, but great episode either way. - Vedran Rodic

Nope - I've only ever seen handwaving estimates. Would love to see some figures with at least solid reasoning behind them. - Cameron Neylon

Exactly.. You see this everywhere (including in things that I have written) but it seems that no one ever can/bothers-to/attempts-to put a bound on the problem. Maybe its just too obviously a 'big' problem to worry about defining just how big it is ;). - Benjamin Good from email

"An unusual substance known as “dry water,” which resembles powdered sugar, could provide a new way to absorb and store carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, scientists reported here today at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society." - Mickey Schafer

"When Stephen Strittmatter discovered an unexpected link between key proteins in two devastating brain maladies — Alzheimer's disease and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) — researchers in the field agreed that he was on to something big. But a year on, conflicting results, including findings published in Nature this month, have clouded that rosy picture and highlight the challenge faced by researchers seeking a way to arrest Alzheimer's disease progression". - Graham Steel

arg: "Animal models are particularly contentious, he notes, because there is no single model that is universally perceived to be the best system in which to study the disease. And because each lab has invested its time, effort and reputation into its particular model system, this is unlikely to change, he adds. A consortium organized by the Cure Alzheimer's Fund, based in Boston,... more... - Mickey Schafer

"Scientific papers are an important, though poorly understood, method of publication. They are important because without them scientists cannot get money from the government or from universities. They are poorly understood because they are not written very well" - Iddo Friedberg from Bookmarklet

"Nominally, science involves discovering something new about the universe, but this is not really necessary. What is really necessary is a grant." - Daniel Mietchen

:-) - Ruchira S. Datta

Ruchira comes back. - Ami Iida

Next up: Do people grow more similar to their dogs? - Eric Jain

Dogs resemble their owners. - Ami Iida