Sept. 18, 2013. Magill House – I’m in a B&B that was once a cure cottage in the Adirondack town of Saranac Lake, New York, where for more than 70 years tuberculosis patients came from the big city hoping that the cold mountain air would cure their disease. Half the houses had TB patients near …
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. …
Crossposting this from my Tree of Life blog. Well, press releases can drive me crazy. And this one is one of the worst I have seen in a while: IBM News room – 2013-01-24 IBM and The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Develop New Antimicrobial Hydrogel to Fight Superbugs and Drug-Resistant Biofilms – United States This …
HICprevent is today’s microBEnet microbiology’s Blog of the Day. Blogs are taken from list of Microbiology Blogs we have curated at microBEnet. This blog is one of the few blogs we have found out there that is heavily focused on microbes specifically in the built environment. The blog is by Gary Evans and is associated with a publication from AHC media “Hospital …
The Germ Guy is today’s microBEnet microbiology’s Blog of the Day. Blogs are taken from list of Microbiology Blogs we have curated at microBEnet. The germ guy blog is by Jason “Germ Guy” Tetro and it focuses on “A personal and unique look at germs, hygiene and staying healthy.” He is pretty active in media and social media (e.g., follow him on …
ERV is today’s microBEnet microbiology’s Blog of the Day. Blogs are taken from list of Microbiology Blogs we have curated at microBEnet. ERV, though it does not specifically say this anywhere I could find, is short for endogenous retroviruses. Written by Abbie Smith, ERV pretty consistently focuses on issues relating to endogenous retroviruses, HIV and other retroviruses or the …
The Febrile Muse is today’s microBEnet microbiology blog of the day. The blog focuses on the “Portrayal of Infectious Diseases in Literature and the Arts” according to the tagline. The author, who is not named, describes herself as “passionate about science literacy and wishes to inspire people to read and write and learn.” More about the author …
End the Neglect is today’s microBEnet microbiology blog of the day. This blog is from the “Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases” which is “an initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute dedicated to raising the awareness, political will, and funding necessary to control and eliminate the seven most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). NTDs are …