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Kudos for getting the CC license! - Bill Hooker

Bjorn: 1) Author should indeed be in charge of length in my opinion as well as form in many other ways 2) Does not hurt to have editors who suggest things that might make a paper better. 3) As for understandability, I think part of the review of a paper, including in journals like PLoS One, should be whether or not what is written correctly explains what was done and correctly explains... more... - Jonathan Eisen

Cool - my GEBA project made it into BBC World, Spanish version - Jonathan Eisen from Bookmarklet

The last entry says: Shark cartilage is the skeletal material of shark and has been consumed as a health food in traditional Chinese medicine for its broad anti-aging benefits. Recent scientific studies have confirmed its benefits for the treatment and prevention of degenerative joint disease. It is an excellent dietary source of chondroitin sulfate and other glycoaminoglycans that rebuild cartilage, and calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc and other bone building minerals. No sharks are caught in the manufacture of this product, the sharks used are harvested for sale as seafood, the cartilage is a by-product. Toxicity studies have shown it to be safe and non-toxic at all but extremely high doses. - Jonathan Eisen

Note - an interesting exercise in bacterial systematics here. B. cereus could in some people's minds be called a different strain of Bacillus anthracis. Imagine however, the effect that a news story saying "anthrax in Slim Fast drinks" would have. - Jonathan Eisen from Bookmarklet

Not sure if this will be good but seems like it has potential - Jonathan Eisen from Bookmarklet

The best line is re: "let there be light " where he implies that the first bio use of light was vision not photosynthesis - Jonathan Eisen from iPhone

set up by Gerard Manning from Salk who writes "Two years ago, I asked you all with a very small favor, to use a website I created - http://minigiving.org - when shopping online. The site has links to a bunch of major online retailers. Simply by clicking from there to a retailers site, anything you buy in that session pays a commission (usually 5-8%) to minigiving, which then goes 100% to the International Rescue Committee (IRC), one of the most respected and efficient of international charities. It seemed like a slightly crazy idea at the time (at least to me), but just by emailing you and some of my work colleagues, we raised over a thousand dollars for refugees that shopping season. This time around, the site is stable, I've worked out the ways to handle the finances (I may the minor costs to run the site, so all commissions still go 100% to the IRC) and so I'd like you consider using the site again and - this is the bigger request - please pass on the word about minigiving to as... more... - Jonathan Eisen from Bookmarklet

May try - Sunday is pancake day Here and I always try to experiment - Jonathan Eisen from iPhone

"She and other scientists are seeking more transparency in the way climate data is handled and in the methods used to analyze it." - Jonathan Eisen from Bookmarklet

How about we sell some issues of PLoS One too? - Jonathan Eisen from Bookmarklet

"The extraordinary information now available for M. pneumoniae sets a new standard for understanding systems-level questions about bacterial physiology and evolution." say Howard Ochman and Rahul Raghavan in a commentary - Jonathan Eisen from Bookmarklet

I personally am not surprised -- in the last 10 years we keep uncovering more and more complexity in bacteria, even ones with small genomes. - Jonathan Eisen

http://twitter.com/science... - Duncan Hull

Already on the list ... - Jonathan Eisen

Sort of entertaining - Jonathan Eisen from Bookmarklet

Is there no end to the horror of the buzzword-ome? - Bill Hooker

So, should we come up with a new buzzfix then? So far, we had 'science', 'omics', ... who knows what next... I'm betting on complexity... so, proteoplex, bioplex, chemplex, metaboplex, ... not merely the individuals, but also the complexity between them. - Egon Willighagen

I like the complexity angle - we should register all those domain names - Jonathan Eisen

Let's not forget cure cancer, cut through metal, and pick up any stain. It's all there, in the Science paper. - Shiran Pasternak

Thank goodness. Been very worried about how to cut through metal these days - Jonathan Eisen

Good to have this collection. Bizarre that they do not list all authors on the collection page and instead to "et al ..." for most of the papers. - Jonathan Eisen from Bookmarklet

thanks to Erik Matsen for putting this together - Jonathan Eisen from Bookmarklet

OK - I am sure you have your reasons. But yuck. - Jonathan Eisen

Now go here:- http://ff.im/bQlvE - Graham Steel

Um, what about us? http://phylogenomics.berkeley.edu - Ruchira S. Datta

No, I haven't heard anything from them. - Ruchira S. Datta

Quote 1 "But the tiny life forms are not completely reliable." - Jonathan Eisen

"Isolating each microbe, and sequencing its genome … would take forever," said Baldwin. "We try to capture the 'metagenome' of the whole community." - Jonathan Eisen

UCDavis courses are teh roxxors!! Invertebrate Zoology with Grosberg and Systematics with Art Shapiro FTW - Kevin Z

I want to take Gorsbergs and Shapiros classes - maybe they will let me audit - Jonathan Eisen

I love how art teaches systematics. Each student got a bucket of hardware and we classified it according to various methods, i.e. phenetics, cladistics, evolutionary phylogenetics. It was interesting how things changed depending on how you applied the rules. Of course any of Grosberg's classes are worth sitting in, he is so dedicated. I forced myself to work in his lab, left him with no... more... - Kevin Z from twhirl

BioTorrents allows scientists to rapidly share their results, datasets, and software using the popular BitTorrent file sharing technology. - Neil Saunders

@Steve bit torrent is often much faster than an institutional repository. Download the client and then grab the latest Ubuntu ISO. You will be surprised. - Doug Hershberger from iPhone

Particularly liked this one by Ewan Birney and Paul Flicek http://www.nature.com/nmeth... - Jonathan Eisen

Here is his home page http://www.sci.uidaho.edu/biosci... - Jonathan Eisen

ok, i read that as "microphone"... nevermind. - Christina Pikas

'We started this work and nobody was willing to fund it so we paid it ourselves and there will be no acknowledgements at the end' - Jonathan Eisen

But, yeah, it makes sense to prioritize the ones within the US, I guess. - Ruchira S. Datta

See his home page here http://www.channing.harvard.edu/kasper... - Jonathan Eisen

Polysac from this organism called PSA - is unusual in having a NH3 group at one side - - Jonathan Eisen

Bacteria in the gut hang out in the mucus outer layer and are not in direct contact with intestinal cells - Jonathan Eisen

Outer layer is the home for commensals - Jonathan Eisen

Here is his home page http://mills.ucdavis.edu/ - Jonathan Eisen

Suggests tripartite evolutionary relationship - milk, infant, microbes - Jonathan Eisen

As with MANY others at this meeting - using 454 sequencing of rRNA to study microbial communities - Jonathan Eisen

As with David Relman, Ley refs. Jared Diamond on community co-occurrence - Jonathan Eisen

Why zebrafish? can make germ free, gut/immune similar to mammals, good genetics - Jonathan Eisen

Another key technique: can transplant microbiota between animals - Jonathan Eisen