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My first proper full-time job was working in the big bad world of scientific publishing for a family run company based in Oxford called Blackwell Science Limited, or blacksci.co.uk which is now part of wiley.com. Consequently, I’ve a few friends and former colleagues who still work in various parts of the publishing industry.

AwardsCaliforniaCameron NeylonChris DiBonaCongratulationsIngeniería y TecnologíaInglés
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In my inbox this morning, an intriguing email from Timo Hannay, Tim O’Reilly and Chris DiBona: Duncan, We’d like to invite you to join us for Science Foo Camp (or “Sci Foo”), a unique, invitation-only gathering organized by Nature, O’Reilly Media, and Google, and hosted at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.

BioBiotechBbsrcBioinformaticsCasey BergmanIngeniería y TecnologíaInglés
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Casey Bergman suggested it, Jean-Marc Schwartz organised it, so now I’m going to do it: a seminar on our Defrosting the Digital Library paper as part of the Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics seminar series. Here is the abstract of the talk: After centuries with little change, scientific libraries have recently experienced massive upheaval.

BiotechClint EastwoodFistfulJournal ClubLegoIngeniería y TecnologíaInglés
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A Fistful of Papers is a Journal Club with a simple recipe We pick interesting papers We read them We periodically meet to discuss said papers in the pub local saloon It’s all good fun, if you’d like to join us, details of the next gathering on Friday 27th February, can be found over at […]

FunnyGoogleInformaticsAlgowithmAnurag AcharyaIngeniería y TecnologíaInglés
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In a curious case of mistaken identity, Google seems to think I’m Maurice Wilkins. Here is how. If you Google the words DNA and mania (google.com/search?q=dna+mania) one of the first results is a tongue-in-cheek article I wrote two years ago about our obsession with Deoxyribonucleic Acid.

ScienceAllan SillitoeBernhard PalssonBritney SpearsGordon PlotkinIngeniería y TecnologíaInglés
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Despite what some people think (see “the myth of the lone inventor” in [1]) most scientists are usually pretty sociable people. Science is an inherently social activity [2], just take a look around you. Most laboratories are full of like-minded people working on related problems, our lab is no exception.

FundingScienceBenchmarkDon BrabenDonald BrabenIngeniería y TecnologíaInglés
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Donald Braben was in Manchester last week, to give a seminar on scientific freedom, here is the abstract of his talk: Every major scientific discovery came unexpectedly out of the blue.  Until a few decades ago, creative researchers were free to explore. The unpredicted harvest was prodigious.

CommunicationAIChristmasChristmas LecturesChristopher BishopIngeniería y TecnologíaInglés
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One of the most important Christmas traditions in Europe, aside from drinking too much, excessive eating and generally conspicuous over-consumption, are the Royal Institution Christmas lectures. This year, they are being given by Professor Christopher Bishop (pictured right), Chief Scientist at Microsoft Research and are on the subject of the Quest for the Ultimate Computer.