I was delighted to come across Microbial Art today, via Easternblot. It’s exactly what it sounds like–a group of biologists who enjoy experimenting with the aesthetic opportunities of cultured microbes. As, in my experience, these opportunities are fairly few in the course of their normal use–mostly they just smell funny and look like yellowish fuzz–I think it’s a worthy effort. (more…)
I’m in New Hampshire at the Proteins Gordon Conference, living it up and learning about all sorts of things. Unfortunately, it’s a confidential conference–I can’t give any details of the work being presented here, so I can’t write at all about the brilliant work I saw today on the ________tonic modeling of the behavior of ___________ ________ation in the _____rqui____ ________some.
So you’ll just have to wait for that to come out in publication.
I was excited today to see that Science magazine followed up on its original Dance Your PhD contest with a second event: The Science Dance Match-Up Challenge. Each of the four winners of the original contest was asked to work with a choreographer to help them create a dance about a paper from the winner’s lab. One of these winners, Markita Landry, works for Yann Chemla–who did his postdoctoral research in my lab several years ago. (more…)
Happy weekend, everybody! In the spirit of the season(s), it’s worth exploring the research people are doing to learn about the secret lives of traditional holiday diets: (more…)
I’m still doing some research for a post about stem cells, but in the meantime I can’t help but link to this: The Nano Song. Gotta love it when people manage to not only discuss science in song, but also to do it well–my favorite is the line “and maybe later a space elevator will truly become real!” (more…)
Between Gary Larson’s Far Side images of nerdy-looking men and women in lab coats, and the well-manicured technicians of CSI: Las Vegas, the public perception of scientists and their workplaces is a tad suspect. (more…)
