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If I wasn’t about to dash off and give my group talk, I’d have time to do this properly. So I’m going to solicit m’learned colleagues’ opinion. I was reading a Table of Contents from a particular journal this morning … Continue reading →

Or, Get ORFFF mah LAHND! In my role as Emissary Extraordinaire to the Colonies, I often find myself defending the Monarchy to the more republican shackle-draggers I encounter. It does, I claim (in the context of a Constitutional Monarchy), counter … Continue reading →

bq. Question: Picasso pioneered what short-lived but influential form of art? Answer: Copper, Bismuth, Samarium So the biologists among us must all have played the “What words can you find in the human|rat|frog|wombat genome?” game. Some of us might even … Continue reading →

The truly excellent XPlasMap is asymptotically approaching 1.0! Ian is soliciting beta testers. Tell him I sent you. New features include: Annotation, with text, arrows, circles, etc. Convert groups of enzymes to multiple cloning sites, and vice-versa Auto-positioning of enzymes … Continue reading →

It must be summer. First Jenny, and now me. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/454804a, if the DOI has woken up yet…)

Cameron Neylon has written an “open letter”:http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2008/08/06/an-open-letter-to-the-developers-of-social-network-and-‘web-20’-tools-for-scientists/ to the developers of SciLink and FaceScientist and all the rest of them, pleading for some sort of cooperation. In the less rarefied atmosphere of the world outside of Science, social networking sites … Continue reading →

Jenny says that ‘most people’ reckon the average cost to produce a peer-reviewed article in an online-only journal is around $3,000. Which means that the publishing houses now charging around that amount of money to make your article ‘open access’ … Continue reading →

I happen to know that our “very own” Dr Rohn is currently in the wilds of Colorado with limited internet access. So I’ll do her a favor and point you at this lovely story in today’s Nature.

If you’re an avid follower of the comments elsewhere on Nature Network you might have gathered that Graham Steel and meself were involved in one of those new-fangled podcast jobbies earlier in the week. It was done over Skype: two … Continue reading →