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August 31, 2007
August 29, 2007
The Daily Transcript in Chemical & Engineering News!
Category: Misc
More reaction on our landmark study of pipette tip usage methods.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:07 PM • 0 Comments •
August 27, 2007
PRISM - a new lobby against open access
Category: Lab Life
The latest round in the open access wars.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:15 AM • 5 Comments •
Bleak times for postdocs in the biomedical sciences?
Category: Lab Life
From the last week's issue of Nature, More biologists but tenure stays static.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:33 AM • 10 Comments •
August 25, 2007
10 years ago today
Category: Misc
I moved to the US. To commemorate this event here's The Immigrant Song, as performed by the original mash-up group, Dread Zeppelin:...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:10 AM • 3 Comments •
August 24, 2007
Yet Another Pub Night
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Nature Network Boston is having another pub night on Tuesday. From Corie:...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:49 AM • 0 Comments •
August 22, 2007
There are so many biomedical workers riding the 65 bus ...
Category: the adventures of baymate
Sigma-Aldrich advertises on it.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:52 AM • 2 Comments •
A day in the life
Category: Lab Life
7AM, up out of bed. I prepare breakfast, two slices of focaccia with salmon and olive spread with an espresso to wash it all down. I quickly flip through the paper. For once the NY Times Science section has an...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:24 AM • 6 Comments •
August 19, 2007
The Charlie Rose Science Series: Pandemics
Category: Science & Society
For anyone that missed this show which aired this past Wednesday....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:46 PM • 3 Comments •
August 16, 2007
Random items that I'd like to blog about
Category: Misc
Sorry about the lack of posts. The lost week spent roaming around the California wilderness has really taken a toll. I have been microinjecting my brains out, but fortunately it looks like I'll be able to get the last piece...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:46 AM • 2 Comments •
August 14, 2007
Info on the next New England RNA Data Club
Category: Lab Life
I just sent out this email:...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:51 AM • 2 Comments •
August 12, 2007
I give up ...
Category: Misc
On the bright side, I'm not a resident of Shenzhen.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:32 AM • 7 Comments •
August 11, 2007
MUST LISTEN - Radiolab
Category: Science & Society
Over my ear phones I hear Ira Glass tell the audience of This American Life about Radiolab, a show produced by WNYC (New York's NPR). Then a couple of days later while perusing down Ouroboros I see this: In case...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:22 AM • 2 Comments •
August 9, 2007
August 8, 2007
HHMI responds to JCB on Open Access
Category: Science & Society
Did HHMI sellout to Elsevier? Or are they promoting Open-Access?
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 4:55 PM • 4 Comments •
Quote of the day
Category: Science & Society
From yesterday's William Gibson interview.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:55 AM • 0 Comments •
August 6, 2007
Scifoo tidbit data dump
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Some items I'd like to mention: - before scifoo, there was a meetup of bloggers in the Bay Area. I finally placed some flesh over my electronic friends and got to meet some other bloggers. Andreas Engvig over at Sharpbrains...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:10 PM • 6 Comments •
Scifoo - Day 3 (well that was yesterday, but I just didn't have the time ...)
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Thoughts from yesterday's session on Scientific Communication and Young Scientists, a Culture of Fear
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:46 AM • 6 Comments •
August 4, 2007
Scifoo - Day 2 - Science Communication
Category: Lab Life
A big topic of conversation at Scifoo seems to be the future of scientific communication. I have renounced using the term Open Access, this term has been applied to so many different aspects of scientific publishing that it is utterly...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:59 PM • 12 Comments •
Scifoo - Day 2 - Breakfast Edition
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
I'm now having coffee with Bora and Prof. Steve Steve at the Googleplex. Want proof?...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:41 AM • 1 Comments •
Scifoo - Day 1
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Yesterday I met up with a few sciblings including Bora, Josh and Chris and some science bloggers like Attila. Today I arrived at "the Googleplex". Right now it's 2:30AM on the west coast, and I'm exhausted. Here's just a couple...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 5:42 AM • 1 Comments •
August 3, 2007
Back from Lassen Volcanic National Park
Category: Misc
What a trip. I'll post more pics in the near future. Tonight I'm off to scifoo....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 12:59 PM • 1 Comments •
August 2, 2007
Repost - To all you microscopist wannabes, I've got something for you
Category: Retrospective
A nice article in Nature on image-based data
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:00 AM • 5 Comments •
August 1, 2007
Repost - Eye Candy
Category: Retrospective
Guess what's I've captured in this image.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:00 AM • 0 Comments •
