Alex Palazzo is a postdoctoral fellow working in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School.
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January 28, 2008
Category: Lab Life
Arrive to the conference early to take in a day of skiing before the conference. + 90 minute delay in take off at Boston, with a mad dash to our connecting flight in Portland. = Luggage stuck in Portland =...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 1:25 PM • 2 Comments •
January 27, 2008
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Well we are happy about last night. This afternoon I'm taking off for northern Idaho. I'll somewhere in the mountains for about a week. Between the meeting, skiing and working on the grant I don't know how much blogging I'll...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
January 26, 2008
Category: Misc
At least I didn't support a warmonger -Anonymous (you know who you are!)...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:37 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Misc
I often read these guys - the lives they describe are something that any struggling young scientist trapped in the web of academia and the NIH can relate to. Since their move to Sb, they've even managed to post on...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:35 AM • 1 Comments •
January 25, 2008
Category: Misc
A day in the life of a secluded grant writer.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:21 AM • 5 Comments •
January 24, 2008
Category: Lab Life
Come meet the people at Nature Networks Boston, Tuesday Jan 29th at the Middlesex Lounge.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:10 AM • 0 Comments •
January 23, 2008
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Hello world. It's been about a week now that I've given up bench work for the pen. Instead of commuting to the lab, I've been anchored to my chair writing this longish compilation of past results, inconsistencies in the literature, and my little addition to the confusion that exists in my field of study.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:51 AM • 1 Comments •
January 20, 2008
Category: Misc
Crows using humans for their own purposes.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:00 AM • 4 Comments •
January 19, 2008
Category: Lab Life
Store, search and organize all those PDFs. (I really need this!)
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 1:27 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Lab Life
The inspector general's office of the Department of Health and Human Services released a report suggesting that the NIH should do a better job of monitoring potential conflicts of interest.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:11 AM • 0 Comments •
January 18, 2008
Category: the adventures of baymate
Baymate just freaked-out over that bio-rad PCR clip that's been making the rounds. If you really want to see it, look beneath the fold....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:41 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Map that Campus
The first of 2008. What could it be?
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:00 AM • 14 Comments •
January 16, 2008
Category: Pure Biology
About 1% of the genome is expressed as bits of ncRNA in the brain.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:37 AM • 0 Comments •
January 15, 2008
Category: Science & Society
Read it here. Fortunately, I was able to see him give a talk, just a month ago. Unfortunately he will not get a Nobel despite creating a whole field of research while going against the paradigms of the day. Click...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 1:08 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Science & Society
What is so special about life? How does genotype produce phenotype?
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:10 AM • 11 Comments •
January 12, 2008
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
History podcasts, a critique of the NY Times' hostility towards science, Bill Moyers and NOW on the current political campaigns.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:13 PM • 3 Comments •
January 10, 2008
Category: Lab Life
Mitch Waldrop asks you to comment on his article that deals with the intersection between Science and the Web2.0.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 5:26 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: the adventures of baymate
Forget about all the crazy conspiracy theories about why Hillary won -the real issue is whether reshaven should be counted as a word in Scrabble.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:11 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Misc
A new car from Tata Motors that can travel 200km on 1.5euros.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:25 AM • 7 Comments •
January 9, 2008
Category: the adventures of baymate
Yesterday afternoon a very serious topic came up in our bay. You see baymate challenged me to a game of Scrabble (or it's facebook equivalent). I then made a big mistake and brought up the infamous "reshaven incident".
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:47 AM • 11 Comments •
January 7, 2008
Category: Science & Society
A revealing look as to how Impact Factors are compiled by Thomson Scientific.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 5:39 PM • 3 Comments •
January 6, 2008
Category: Science & Society
This occurred when I was taking a year-end blogging break. The new legislation, signed into law by GWB states that if your research is funded by the NIH, any manuscript you produce must be deposited in PubMed Central within 12 months of the publication date.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 12:13 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Misc
All my friends from the Dean campaign went up to NH today and they will all be working in the Obama camp. I'm vacillating between Obama and Edwards (but leaning towards Obama). Here is some of the reasons why:
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:53 AM • 6 Comments •
January 5, 2008
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
52 minutes of Radiohead performing the entire In Rainbows Album
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:03 AM • 3 Comments •
January 4, 2008
Category: Misc
What does this mean? 1) Past decisions on the war are still a major issue. 2) The great alliance between evangelicals and fiscal conservatives may be over.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:27 AM • 3 Comments •
January 3, 2008
Category: Science & Society
Links of interest, from here and there ...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:54 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Misc
Since I started blogging (over 3 years ago) I have been posting less and less on political matters, but I have a story to share with you on the Iowa caucuses. My wife and I, for reasons that I won't...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:39 AM • 4 Comments •
January 2, 2008
Category: Misc
In this coming year I plan to 1) Publish another paper. 2) Spend less time on the blog (great start, eh?) 3) Go to more meetings (I'm already registered for the January Keystone meeting on "Translational Regulatory Mechanisms", and I...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:10 PM • 4 Comments •
