Linkage: "The Larry Summers question: What's up with chicks in science?"
h/t DrugmonkeyPure class. (Source: Across the Bilayer)
Source: Across the Bilayer - April 24, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Old school selfies and the narrow window that is the 5 yr old attention span...
In a mall photo booth this morning, it took two shots before I could convince Wee Girl that the camera was under the telly screen not in it. By the fourth shot her mind was already elsewhere. (Source: Across the Bilayer)
Source: Across the Bilayer - April 19, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Sciencey claptrap generator...
Just came across this webpage on FB. Here's mine:"My work explores the relationship between multiculturalism and counter-terrorism.With influences as diverse as Derrida and Joni Mitchell, new insights are manufactured from both simple and complex textures.Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the unrelenting divergence of the moment. What starts out as yearning soon becomes debased into a hegemony of defeat, leaving only a sense of decadence and the prospect of a new understanding.As spatial phenomena become reconfigured through boundaried and personal practice, the viewer is left with a clue to the possibi...
Source: Across the Bilayer - March 19, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Wee boy watching telly in his wellies...
(Source: Across the Bilayer)
Source: Across the Bilayer - March 6, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Optic Nerve? Optic Perv, more like...
This is the funniest thing I've read on the internet in the whole of today."Unfortunately there are issues with undesirable images in the data. It would appear that a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their body to the other person"British intelligence discovers that there's a lot of nekkidness going on webside. Good work 007, have another martini. (Source: Across the Bilayer)
Source: Across the Bilayer - February 27, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
MIT News: " Closing the ‘free will’ loophole "
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Source: Across the Bilayer - February 22, 2014 Category: Research Source Type: blogs
MIT News: "Closing the ‘free will’ loophole"
I can't decide whether I am confused, was confused, or will have going to have been confused by this article. Or, indeed, whether my anticipation of said confusion may have in some manner adversely impacted the quantum probability of my being confused in the future having read this article, or whether I will subsist in simultaneous states of both confusion and non-confusion at the same time and point in space, regardless.Or not. (Source: Across the Bilayer)
Source: Across the Bilayer - February 22, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Brings tears to the eyes... of hysterical laughter, or sadness?
Figure 1. A graph representing the essential calamity that is the human conditionYe gads. A while ago former NIGMS director, Jeremy Berg, posted this dispiriting article which included a graph showing the correlation between the proposal score of funded NIGMS RO1 applications and the impact of the subsequent research conducted by the investigators (Figure 1).Well, with a h/t to Drugmonkey, I was made aware of this new similar study from Danthi et al (2014) looking at the same correlation for the NHLBI. See Figure 2 and weep. I mean, at least the NIGMS one shows a general, if noise-obscured, trend indicating that there is s...
Source: Across the Bilayer - February 20, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Late night at the rig...
It's my favourite time to tap into the animal electric and patch me some cells. And for some reason*, tonight I'm rolling to my "You weren't there, man!" Spotify station, which started off with just the right tone:* actually, yesterday I was looking - and failing to find - my old well-thumbed copy of Michael Herr's Dispatches in order to pull a quote, so maybe that was what it? (Source: Across the Bilayer)
Source: Across the Bilayer - February 13, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
The private lives of P2X receptors...
... EXPOSED!... in a series of reviews published in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. See below the fold. This isn't all of them, I think there are some more in press, including ours.I do like the Frontiers interweb bits for authors, I have to say. It's a full on stat-narcissist's heaven. It gives you the down low on pretty much every aspect of your visitors, hits and download activity: Location, scientific field, gender, colour and material of elbow pads, it's all there. There's no "Like" button, though, so they should work that in for the next update.[UPDATE: I woz wrong, there IS a Like function! w00t! But we don't ha...
Source: Across the Bilayer - February 7, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Why honoring anonymity in scientific communication is important...
This is just tragic. All due to a selfish and spiteful lapse in professionalism on the part of an individual with a prestigious position at a prestigious journal who should have known better.Dr. Isis writes,"I’ve always gotten sporadic hate mail as random people find me, but this sent up the bat signal and brought a level of vitriol to my email box, blog comments, and even phone that was far more personal and in excess of anything I’ve ever received. And, of course, the way to silence a woman is to intimate or threaten her with a particular type of violence."This is just tragic. It's tragic because being anybody intimi...
Source: Across the Bilayer - February 7, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Stuck on repeat... stuck on repeat... stuck on repeat...
No sooner is my auditory cortex liberated from a week-long loop of The Knife's "If I had a Heart" (been catching up on Vikings, see) than one of my daughter's all too frequent YouT00b sorties results in my being infected by this infernal goddamn racket instead."Never again to be put down by the marzipan girl at the Silverlake Lounge..."Wait, what?Ye gads. (Source: Across the Bilayer)
Source: Across the Bilayer - January 24, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Nature on rare form...
Figure 1. The offices of Nature magazine roam the high seas ofscientific publishing, smiting the ruin of the enemies of scientific consequence wherever it finds them When this wonderful piece of scientific journalism graced the pages of this renown juggernaut of empirical publishing back in 2011, I think there was a real sense from the scientific community that this already grand, austere - and might I say, sir, thoroughly consequential - magazine, with its unparalleled historical prestige, had reached a level of classiness as unassailable as the speed of light*.We.Woz.Wrong.Michael Eisen has a good tak...
Source: Across the Bilayer - January 21, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Burn, baby, burn... on strep throat, insufficient anesthesia, and other woes
Disclaimer: This is not a real advertisement, it is not a real product,and Jackie Chan has not endorsed it. Yet.So, it happened that over the last Thanksgiving I was stricken for the first time with the dreaded strep throat. A miserable business. In addition to the antibiotics, the Doc gave me a prescription for a lidocaine rinse to ease what was a surprisingly incredible amount of pain for a sore throat. Turned out to be about as useful as a snooze button on a smoke detector. You can't swish and gargle the stuff because it's as viscous as honey, but you're not supposed to swallow it either (presumably because you don't wa...
Source: Across the Bilayer - January 12, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Information escrows: addressing the "first-mover disadvantage" in reporting sexual harassment
I've been meaning to post something on this for a while, considering recent events. One of the commenters, "michaelchwe", responding to Monica Byrne's sexual harassment testimony on her blog a while back said,"...There’s an interesting paper by Ian Ayres and Cait Unkovic proposing “information escrows”. A person who reports sexual harassment reports to an information escrow with the understanding that the report will remain sealed until (say) two other reports are received about the same perpetrator. Once three reports are received, then all three reports are opened and given to authorities. This way, no single perso...
Source: Across the Bilayer - November 25, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
