Friday SNPpets
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment…
- RT @moorejh: #bioinformatics MT @brainpicker TreeVersity – interactive #visualization tool lets you compare tree diagrams http://t.co/09PMu6Oo [Mary]
- RT @tferriss: HUGE – “World’s largest release of human cancer genome data”: http://t.co/tnSbqE7d Partially thanks to all 4HB readers! http://t.co/dMxHiWoX [Mary]
- I’m gonna hafta watch & learn about “poo tea” RT
@bykriscampbell Ooh, this@tedmed talk by@phylogenomics gets me so excited! An intro to “the microbes that live in and on us”. http://ow.ly/bhfQ0 [Jennifer] - RT @emblebies: A new mirror for OMIM.org is now running from the EMBL-EBI for European users. Please visit europe.omim.org [Mary]
- Think I’d like to attend: RT @WorldSciFest: RT
@TomLevenson: Four out of seven total Kavli laureates this year are women. Change comes; slowly, but it comes.#wsf12 [Jennifer] - Heh–this got a bunch of re-tweets; I suspect it touched a nerve. RT @szintri: Common problem these days RT @brent_p people keep coming to me with data and without questions. #bioinformatics [Mary]
- Ha ha ha: RT @milklovesu: Now I understand why biologist are such bioinformatics haters, cause comp sci people write like this. What y… [pic] — http://t.co/aHrooVYy [Mary]
Comments
Comment from Mary
Time June 7, 2012 at 12:32 PM
No, they record these at live sessions, and this was done years ago now. I attended a similar one in Cambridge (US) recently and the audience was an evening group of geeks plied with some ethanol. I imagine The Moth is similar. And it’s a radio show, so they may not spend a lot of time thinking about the backgrounds. (I assume you refer to the Paul Nurse video in the other post).
Comment from Ken
Time June 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Does this Nurse video have canned laughter? Is there a bloopers video behind him on a large screen? Doesn’t bode well for the calibre of attendee at the World Science Festival.