We had an interesting workshop on “Social Media for STEM Research” at UC Davis yesterday that may be of interest to some people. This was sponsored by the UC Davis Advance project and involved some mini presentations and then Q & A with me, Holly Bik (a post doc in my lab at UC Davis …
———————– UPDATE February 2019 Storify is no longer in existence. Fortunately we were able to convert the Storify summary to one via Wakelet. Wakelet details: Link to Wakelet Site: #UCDavis Social Media for STEM Discussion PDF of Wakelet ———————– Old Storify links: //storify.com/phylogenomics/ucdavis-social-media-for-stem-discussion.js?border=false&header=false&more=false Storify by Jonathan Eisen Sat, Jun 01 2013 08:31:54 #UCDavis Social Media …
I just love this. Saw a post on twitter from Glyn Moody Mouldering city built of bread is a metaphor for Earth without humans – bit.ly/19vEkjT striking – Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) June 1, 2013 So I followed the lead to this: Mouldering city built of bread is a metaphor for Earth without humans – Boing Boing. …
The Sloan Foundation recently convened grantees for the 2nd Conference on the Microbiology of the Built Environment, and the opening talk focused on the benefits of collaboration. Carlos Rodriguez reminded us (I’m paraphrasing), “When you look at problems in silos, you find solutions in silos. But when you look at problems across disciplines, you find …
Next in our “People Behind the Science” video series we have an interview with Scott Kelley from San Diego State. Here he’s talking about his Sloan-funded work on viruses in the built environment… an understudied and under-appreciated topic for sure. Transcript:
This new paper might fall under the category of “things you don’t want to think about.” After reading this study by Buse et al., I now ponder what’s in my drinking water every time I fill up a glass from the tap: Buse HY, Lu J, Struewing IT, Ashbolt NJ. (2013) Eukaryotic diversity in premise …
This meeting is an annual gathering to bring together all of the Sloan grantees, their labs, and other stakeholders in the field to discuss the status of the microbiology of the built environment program. Thanks again to Mark Hernandez and Alina Handorean for all their hard work in putting it together. Note that I will …
Well, I did not know there was a shoe fairy out there but apparently there is. See this post Philly Shoe Fairy: Shoe Science! where the Philly Shoe Fairy discusses participating in our Project MERCURRI. This type of response is exactly why we love the idea of partnering with Darlene Cavalier, the Science Cheerleader, because she has …
Continuing their recent run of articles about microbiology (a summary of such articles can be found on Jonathan’s blog), the NYT just ran another story on the Sloan-funded microbial diversity survey of NY subways. See our previous blog on the topic here.
A great article in the NYT today about the microbiology of the built environment ranging from pillowcases to hospitals to asthma. Includes interviews with Noah Fierer, Rob Dunn, Paula Olsiewski, Jessica Green, Jordan Peccia, and Jack Gilbert. A good link for sending to family and friends that ask “what are you working on again?”