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Jonathan Eisen

Jonathan Eisen

Evolutionary biologist, professor, and open access advocate at U. C. Davis
@shadowmobio You think that attracts people to the store or scares them away?
@Eco_Prof I think chordates must start Wed next week --- but not 100% sure
Second lecture for biodiversity class at #ucdavis: Arthropods like this Coconut crab & other ecdysozoans http://twitpic.com/qa00d
Second lecture for biodiversity class at #ucdavis: Arthropods like this Coconut crab & other ecdysozoans http://twitpic.com/qa00d
Today in Biodiversity/tree of life class at #ucdavis - Pogonophora and other wormy things
Re: last tweet, Prof Wainwright says he does not completely buy argument that exoskeleton strength vs volume limits arthropod size
Key issue in class today: exoskeleton vs endoskeleton, pluses and minuses, and why there are no really enormous arthropods
@pzmyers Be careful of the evolution particle http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2009...
Neither rain nor sleet nor ... will stop #ucdavis protesters from marching re: budget issues
Neither rain not sleet nor ... will stop #ucdavis protesters from marching to protest budget issues http://www.twitvid.com/5A7C2
Crohn's blamed on lazy immune cells -New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
Four short links: 20 November 2009 - O'Reilly Radar - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
Customs agents seize 316,000 bongs in LA: & in related news Lincecum & Phelps move to LA - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
Good call: State's elected officials' pay to be cut - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
RT @kzelnio: Why taxonomy is important to conservation. Exhibit A: the "common" skate http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...
For $&%# sake, Bentham Open Journals, leave me alone - http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2009...
OK, now that made me giggle: Skeptic Wonder: Rule 34: Proteins - http://skepticwonder.blogspot.com/2009...
RT @katherineharmon: Science cracked corn and I DO care: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article... for more on the full corn genome unveiled today
The usual confusion: "mapped", "deciphered" - thankfully no "decoded" this time. I think there is some mapping involved, but why not just "sequenced"? - Neil Saunders
Cool "INVISIBLE OCTOPUS" http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Cool "INVISIBLE OCTOPUS" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRSbC6HAgNE
Play
Wow! Invisible Octopus?! Where was that published? - Egon Willighagen
This video segment appears in a TED talk which I blogged in Jan 2008:- http://mcblawg.blogspot.com/2008... - Graham Steel
Waiting at Davis Amtrak for Victor Kunin from JGI who is talking here re: 454 based rRNA sequencing http://bugmaster.jgi-psf.org/~vkunin...
Conference Humiliation: They're Tweeting Behind Your Back - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com/article...
@nutrigenomics Just got a grant to by a Titanium - but benchtop might be more the scale we need - very interesting times
Wondering if I want to buy the new 454 Benchtop sequencer http://www.454.com
Via @cory_golden The World’s 50 Best Open Courseware Collection http://onlineuniversityrankings.org/2009...
More cools pics: 2008 Olympus extraordinary microscope images - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...
Extraordinary microscope images - Olympus bioscapes http://shar.es/azFjI
IBM computer simulates cat’s cerebral cortex - decides to take nap - http://shar.es/azFd9
A student in #ucdavis Biodiversity class got a copy of the doctored Origin book at the Campus Center today http://twitpic.com/q0vpp
A student in #ucdavis Biodiversity class got a copy of the doctored Origin book at the Campus Center today http://twitpic.com/q0vpp
Saw #ucdavis cow w/ a fistula today on way to class - note JGI working on #metagenomics from one of these http://twitpic.com/q0xh3
Saw #ucdavis cow w/ a fistula today on way to class - note JGI working on #metagenomics from one of these http://twitpic.com/q0xh3
Listening to Peter Wainwright at #ucdavis discuss evolution of molluscs & relatives - my favorite - those w/ chemosynthetic symbionts
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