I have been going through old files and notes and scanning some of the more interesting things. One thing I personally find fascinating are notes from talks from a whiles back. So I am going to post some of these notes – in a method I call “retroblogging”. Perhaps I will fake-live-tweet these past talks …
Just announced: @ASM Conference on The Individual Microbe: Single-cell Analysis and Agent-based Modeling March 18—20, 2016 ASM Headquarters Washington, DC. @ASM Conferences are designed to foster interaction and facilitate collaboration between 50 invited participants by having in-depth discussions on a single topic and serving as an incubator for bringing new scientific specialty meetings to the …
OK this looks like it will be really really interesting. Laurie Garrett sent me a link to this announcment about a meeting of the Empiricist League in New York: What are the 15,000 microscopic lifeforms that live on the subway? How disgusting are the contaminants in the Gowanus Canal? Can we use technology to stop …
In response to studies showing that antibiotic resistance can spread through the food supply, the FDA has made some recent policy decisions about the use of antibiotics in livestock rearing. A public meeting will be held by the FDA on September 30, 2015, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Jefferson Auditorium, 14th and Independence …
Just got pointed to this collection of videos from a Sloan Foundation supported symposium on microbiology of the built environment that was held at Healthy Buildings 2015: HB2015 Europe Sloan Symposium Videos – Building Ecology The videos are all avaiable on Vimeo. I have embedded them below: Healthy Buildings Europe 2015 Keynote dr. Miia Pitkaranta from …
Sadly I was unable to make the MoBE 2015 meeting… it’s the first one I’ve missed since they started in 2012. From following the tweets, it sounded like a great and productive meeting as usual! Here’s the Storify for anyone else who wants to see what happened… hopefully we’ll get out some blog posts from …
This is just a quick posting of some building science data that I collected during Day 1 of the 4th Annual Conference on the Microbiology of the Built Environment in Boulder, CO. I setup a couple of our Open Source Building Science Sensors (OSBSS) in the front corner of the room before the conference convened yesterday and left …
Well, I missed the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) meeting this year that just took place in New Orleans, sadly. But I followed a lot of the meeting on Twitter. Thanks to all the people who posted – it was captivating. I looked around tonight and I could not find any please that had captured all …
I went to Maker Faire a couple of weeks ago and came across a company called Initial State, who makes beautiful software where you can look at your built environment data in real time dashboards. In this blog post, they have a tutorial on how make a simple “Home Environment Hub” to monitor different variables inside of a room: …
Michael Fischbach was at UC Davis today and gave a very interesting talk. A few of us were Tweeting from the talk and I compiled the Tweets via Storify and this is posted below.