Following up on these recent posts… here’s a twitter discussion from a couple of weeks ago…
F1000’s Caeser Berrios says that people who want to participate anonymously in post-publication peer review should…
Colby Vorland coded this Chrome plugin called Lazy Scholar to make it easier to find full text versions of papers. It basically cross references a bunch of databases for you, to find information…
PubMed Commons has a search argument you can use to find articles with comments:
has_user_comments
You can click that link to try it yourself.
As of this writing, there are about 650 comments on all of PubMed Commons. I don’t know how this compares…
Carson Chow’s blog announced:
There is an epic discussion on the Connectionist mailing list right now.
He followed up with his two cents entitled “(Lack of) Progress in neuroscience”.
It’s an on-going, vibrant discussion on…
In the US, the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech protects many insults that can be lobbed at a person. However, a line is crossed into defamation, a civil or criminal…
Please enjoy this story from Mistress of the Animals about how her old mentor would keep all of his reviews– in the days of typewriters– and then compare new reviews to…
Thorlabs released a ridiculously sized (264 MB) PDF catalog for their life sciences imaging. Despite the size, I recommend downloading it and checking it out. There are several items and lots of product details…
Infographic by Thomas Porostocky for WIRED.
Of course Labrigger emphatically supports the work of the Gates Foundation. However, we have to disagree with Bill Gates’ choice for Graph of the…
A famous speech from 1961 is being quoted in the media recently, and it might be interesting to Labrigger readers that the same speech offered some thoughts about the future relationship between science and…
Unfortunately, the book itself is not open, but it has a couple of chapters available online.
(Elsevier store)
(via)
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C-SPAN had a in depth, on air discussion on the role of the NIH, the impact of budget cuts, and the future of the NIH.
Guests included:
Dr. Francis Collins, Director, NIH
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director,…
They motorized a Kopf manipulator and used CNC software to control it. I like the simple mechanics. Here’s one of the parts used to couple the stepper motors to the manipulator:
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Welcome to 13 years ago. Current NIH funding is at about the same level it was in 2000. The doubling has been undone, and we’re now at a level that is far…
