It is a comprehensive report from the Royal Society with links to videos, text, previous meetings, references, EPUBs, and more relating to a report that was released a few days ago. From the web site:
Six key areas for action are highlighted in the report:
Scientists need to be more open among themselves and with the public and media
Greater recognition needs to be given to the value of data gathering, analysis and communication
Common standards for sharing information are required to make it widely usable
Publishing data in a reusable form to support findings must be mandatory
More experts in managing and supporting the use of digital data are required
New software tools need to be developed to analyse the growing amount of data being gathered
The International Society of Exposure Science, ISES, will hold its annual conference October 23-27 in Baltimore. The Society has invited all participants to bring dust samples for its Metals in Dust Samples Study. "A special ISES Metals in House Dust Study will analyze house dust samples supplied by the meeting…
Just got this email letter from the American Society for Microbiology and I thought it would be useful and important to share. Please - everyone out there doing work involving potential harmful microbes - redouble your efforts to do that work as safely as possible. And also consider careful the risk…
A new paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B is a bit disconcerting. The paper "Skin as a potential source of infectious foot and mouth disease aerosols" is by Michael Dillon from Lawrence Livermore Labs (I have added the reference to the microBEnet collections at Mendeley and CiteULike).…
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