I asked the Twittersphere last week for suggestions for hashtags to use for Tweets about microbiology of the built environment Here are some of the answers [View the story “Hashtags for microbiology of the built environment” on Storify] UPDATE: March 25, 2018 Since Storify is disappearing soon we converted the Storify into a “Wakelet” and …
So – my microBEnet project has spent a lot of time working on this reference collection that we have currently in Mendeley. Microbiology of the Built Environment | Mendeley Group. In addition to just collecting these 700+ papers we have also added our own tags to the references in regard to the types of environments …
I have gotten many outside requests for the following information – what places (companies, Universities, government agencies, etc) provide contract services for rRNA PCR and sequencing? I know that uBiome will do this (full disclosure – I am on their SAB). The UC Davis Host-Microbe Systems Biology Core will do this (more disclosure – I am the …
For those wanting to catch up on some of the cool research that was presented this week at the 32nd Annual Conference of the American Association for Aerosol Research in Portland, I’ve pulled together some of the tweets that were posted during the meeting into a Storify! This year only 4 people were tweeting at …
Just thought I would write up a quick post on a session at the Infectious Disease Week meeting in San Francisco that I was part of. The session was entitled “Media, Social Media, and Open Access: Communicating the Science of Infectious Disease” and it featured three talks: Tara Smith, PhD: Using Social Media to Affect Change …
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 …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs I have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of the every day or so with a mini description. And just going to do this alphabetically. So todays blog is: blog.aids.gov – HIV Policy & Programs. Research. New Media.. Authors: many including these from recent posts: Gail …
For those wanting to catch up on the workshop discussions that happened last week in Boulder, we’ve pulled together all the tweets into a Storify! Includes coverage of the QIIME/VAMPS bioinformatics workshop, and the subsequent fungal meeting focused on resources for ITS gene barcoding. [View the story “QIIME/VAMPS and ITS fungi #microbenet meetings” on Storify]
Last night was the Microbiology of the Built Environment session at the bi-annual Lake Arrowhead meeting. This session was organized and sponsored by microBEnet. I recorded some of the talks and will post those videos here after some editing. Here’s a summary of the speakers and the topics discussed. The first speaker was James Meadow …