CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-04-27 18:40:40 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Die neueste Folge unseres Wissenschafts-Videocast aus dem Spektrum-Bunker ist Online. Diesmal mit Killer-Robotern, der nächsten Mars-Mission und Markus Lanz.

2013-04-05 06:28:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

VDR 2.0.0 reached unstable OpenSuse Repos: http://software.opensuse.org/package/vdr

2013-04-02 12:56:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

charity running ist gestartet

2013-03-31 11:45:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-03-13 06:40:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Ein paar Gedanken zum Thema und der Datenlage zu Bisphenol A (BPA)

2013-02-15 06:26:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Auf Google+ verzichten = auf SEO verzichten

2013-02-14 08:21:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Davor schützen "Bio" Produkte nicht... eher im Gegenteil:
"Kennt ihr den bedeutendsten chronischen Risikofaktor in Lebensmitteln?  Anders als man meinen sollte, sind es nicht Pestizidrückstände oder andere künstliche Zusätze, sondern Mycotoxine - Gifte, produziert von Schimmelpilzen auf den Lebensmitteln selbst." 
Aber selbst durch Fungizide kann man unter Umständen nicht alle Schimmelpilze beseitigen wie nun herausgefunden wurde. 

2013-02-06 15:28:21 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

Ein neues Video aus der Serie "Bildverarbeitung mit Fiji / ImageJ". Dieses Mal geht es um die Bildnachbearbeitung als Vorbereitung für die Bildverarbeitung oder die Publikation. HowTo Tutorials mit Beispielen zu folgenden Themen werden in dieser Serie noch folgen:

1 Bildverarbeitung Basics mit Fiji
2 Bildnachbearbeitung mit Fiji
3 Gel und Dot Blot Analyse mit Fiji
4 z-Projektionen in Fiji - Verarbeitung von Stacks
5 Particle Tracking mit Fiji und Mtrack2
6 Makros in Fiji - Am Beispiel Hintergrund Subtrahierung
7 ImageJ Plugins entwickeln - Plugin Entwicklung in der IDE Netbeans
8 Fiji Daten Export - Verarbeitung von Messdaten
9 Fiji Annotationen - Bilder beschriften
10 Fiji Bilder exportieren

2013-01-11 08:20:43 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

MS Word hat sich in vielen Bereichen (leider auch wissenschaftlichen) als Quasi-Standard etabliert. Warum das nicht so sein sollte und warum auch docx kein Standard sein sollte, wird hier von Karl Voit, TU-Graz, Institut für Softwaretechnologie zusammen gefasst.

2012-12-03 21:23:01 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Das Einstiegsvideo zu einer ganzen Serie an Bildverarbeitungs-Tutorials, welche in nächster Zeit kostenfrei über unseren Kanal zu Verfügung gestellt werden. Als Software wird die Open Source +ImageJ Distribution +Fiji eingesetzt.

2012-11-30 22:45:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

+Wikipedia:Kurier Artikel über das Wikipedia Projekt der +Universität Innsbruck. Hochschuldidaktische Zusammenarbeit der Fakultät für Biologie (+Thorsten Schwerte, +Stefan Stolz, +Elisabeth Kugler) mit der Redaktion Biologie.

2012-08-30 06:00:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Looking forward to my talk about "A transgenic approach to in vivo intravascular blood volume measurement in zebrafish embryos" (Stefan Stolz, Dirk Meyer, +Thorsten Schwerte) at the http://www.histochemistry54.eu

2012-08-01 19:43:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-06-30 09:50:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v9/n7/full/nmeth.2019.html

2012-06-02 09:38:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

MATHS • SIMPLE VISUAL • How Trigonometry Works
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This should be the first thing shown in all trigonometry classes
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Image► http://goo.gl/jE4yg Trigonometry ► http://goo.gl/kmWic

2012-04-25 09:21:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Liebe Freunde und Kollegen,

Die Tiroler Forschungsnacht naht und ich lade Euch ein am Samstag um 18:15 oder 20:45 im Hörsaal F (1. Stock über die freien Stiegen im Foyer) Techniker Str. 25 unsere Präsentation zum Thema Bionik zu besuchen.

2012-04-25 09:21:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Der Zebrafisch in der Diabetes-Forschung:

Das Institut für Molekularbiologie lädt alle Interessierten im Rahmen der "Tiroler Nacht der Forschung" ein, mehr über den Zebrafisch in der modernen bio-medizinischen Grundlagenforschung zu erfahren. Besuchen Sie uns am Samstag, 28.04. ab 17.00 Uhr am Technik-Campus im Erdgeschoss.

2012-02-24 06:46:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Via +Fiji, which do a very good job in this direction in the sector image processing.

From the article: "We argue that, with some exceptions, anything less than the release of source programs is intolerable for results that depend on computation."

Closed source slows progress in general, because basal parts of a code have to be written again and again. What is a pity in everyday life, is intolerable in science.

2012-02-20 13:23:11 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Fantastic animation. Scale from the observable size of the universe at 10^27 meters to the world in our range and then down to the planck length at 10^-35 meters. There are examples with descriptions (click the images) for every scale. "The scale of the Universe": http://htwins.net/scale2/

Only a little example image (use the link above to see all):

2012-02-14 21:49:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Explore the mysteries of our Universe!

Join a very special Google+ Hangout On Air! On Wednesday, 15th February, from a cavern 100 meters underneath France, you will have a rare chance to see where some of the world’s highest-energy particle physics experiments take place and ask questions of the scientists who conduct them.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world’s biggest and most powerful particle accelerator, spanning the border between Switzerland and France. The LHC accelerates protons to nearly the speed of light and then smashes them together inside detectors like CMS some 40 million times a second to produce fantastic particles, many of which haven’t been around since the Big Bang.

Physics professor Dr. Joe Incandela will take your questions from deep underground in the cathedral-sized CMS experimental cavern, in front of the14,00... more »

2012-02-08 11:46:24 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Biologie-Studierende und -Interessierte aufgepasst: Eine neue, interaktive Lernunterlage von Innsbrucker Biologen bietet eine ausführliche Einführung in die Bioinformatik.

2012-02-03 12:53:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-01-31 14:54:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources with the platform independent and open source reference manager Zotero 3.0 from the Center for History and New Media of the George Mason University.

2012-01-26 19:30:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Announcing the official Wikipedia Android app! The Android app marks an important turning point for Wikimedia mobile projects and the Open Web. Instead of developing a native application as we had done previously with our iOS Wikipedia app, we opted to simplify our development efforts so we could prepare to be a part of Open Web technologies of the future.

2012-01-26 08:46:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Participate in the first challenge on EM (machine-learning-based) automatic segmentation! Try your methods with the provided data and compare them with other state-of-the-art algorithms: http://fiji.sc/wiki/index.php/Segmentation_of_neuronal_structures_in_EM_stacks_challenge_-_ISBI_2012

2012-01-24 18:45:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In the first partnership of its kind, Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation will provide more than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East (AMEA) with mobile access to Wikipedia — without incurring data usage charges.

2012-01-24 11:55:38 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Hallucinogenic mushrooms act by turning off parts of the brain. This may be the real secret to expanding someone’s mind by these drugs.

2012-01-19 17:39:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Google flu trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity. http://ow.ly/8wNzp

2012-01-19 16:44:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Der Laborjournal Blog hat einige witzige beziehungsweise kreative Titel aus Reviews, News & Views, Opinion Pieces, Essays und anderen ähnlichen wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen gesammelt.

Ich konnte es nicht lassen auch ein Beispiel hinzu zu fügen. Diese Wissenschaftler hatten wohl einen knurrenden Magen beim Schöpfen dieses Titels:

Carradice, D. ; Lieschke, G. J.: Zebrafish in hematology: sushi or science? In: Blood Bd. 111 (2008), Nr. 7, S. 3331 -3342

2012-01-17 13:22:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Seit ich selbst ein Buch über Wissenschaft geschrieben habe, verfolge ich die Wissenschaftsbuchszene noch genauer, als ich das vorher schon getan habe. In Österreich wurde vor wenigen Tagen wieder das Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres gewählt. Zu meiner Schande muss ich gestehen, dass ich von den Preisträgern kaum ein Buch kannte... Aber es sind definitiv interessante Titel dabei! http://www.scienceblogs.de/astrodicticum-simplex/2012/01/die-wissenschaftsbucher-des-jahres-2012.php

2012-01-17 11:24:00 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

A concept from Scitable (by Nature Publishing Group) to write Scientific Papers.

2012-01-17 05:30:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Wikimedia Executive Director Sue Gardner explains how the decision to blackout Wikipedia was made, and why SOPA/PIPA would be devastating for the free and open web.

2012-01-16 21:23:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

An image of capillary, just wide enough for one red blood cell (erythrocyte) to squeeze through

Source: http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/141675/enlarge

2012-01-16 08:05:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

How Fallible Memory Makes the Self

The fallibility of our memories is well documented. Many studies have shown that eyewitness accounts are unreliable and, in an experiment conducted at a British university, people who were shown fake photos of their childhood — their bodies had been digitally inserted into others' vacation photos — came to have memories of those events, sometimes extremely vivid ones. Memory researcher Martin Conway says there are two opposing forces in every memory: recalling what actually happened and fitting the memory with what the self requires.

While memory has been portrayed as an automatic system of recall, considering how it serves us in an evolutionary sense gives a more accurate picture. Memory, much like everything at its base, is adapted to help us survive. "There is only a limited evolutionary advantage in being able to reminisceabo... more »

2012-01-16 08:04:20 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Eyes Are the Windows to the Brain What Your Eyes Say About Who You Are

Cognitive science has updated the old adage that the eyes are the windows to the soul. New eye-tracking technology in the form of video cameras, which record every miniscule movement of the eye, are giving scientists important data on eye movement patterns — where we look, and for how long — revealing important information about how we read, how we learn and even what kind of people we are. Now the eyes are the window to the brain and scientists are exploring how we learn from text and images, including those viewed onscreen.

Who is using the new data and how? Advertisers are better informed about where to place an ad so that you will look at it. Ads that move, for example, are harder for people to ignore. On the opposite side, scientists are using the data to eliminate distraction and improve focus.Psy... more »

2012-01-12 20:54:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-01-11 07:14:42 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

I Heart the Google+ Search!!

Here's what I love about this for my own personal use: Finding relevant posts from Google+ in a web search. I've been using facebook for several years for the purpose of information and link sharing, generating discussions, and networking. The problem is, I tend to post a lot. And people comment a lot. Some of the discussions get pretty heavy, with lots of secondary links in the comments, etc.

Every few weeks, I'll get an email from a facebook contact asking me "if I remember the name of that one article I posted on [psychology topic] because they thought there was a reference that was listed in the comments they wanted to look up and never bookmarked it, and then they couldn't find it on my wall..." Pffft... hell, no, I don't remember. And if I did, I certainly can't find a post from 2 months back.
... more »

2012-01-10 10:56:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Under the right conditions, a virus outside a host might survive and be able to cause infections for more than six months.

2012-01-10 10:53:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#NetworkAnalysis #DrugSideEffects

"Researchers started with a 2005 catalog of existing medications and their known side effects, such as heart attacks or sleeping problems. After linking drugs and their side effects into a network, they instructed a computer to predict likely new connections between drugs and side effects. The program was able to predict 42 percent of the drug–side effect relationships that were later found in patients, the researchers report in the Dec. 21 Science Translational Medicine."

2012-01-10 07:00:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Via +Martin Robbins on twitter:

RT @mjrobbins: Greenpeace making up facts, again. RT @mark_lynas: Scientists refute Greenpeace Germany 'GM superpest' claims http://bit.ly/yoQ43u

2012-01-09 18:29:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Eirik Solheim took 16,000 photos through his window in Oslo over the course of 2010. The images were 3888 pixels wide, so he chose 3888 of the photos and assembled a 1-pixel-wide strip of each, in chronological order, into this collage. It's sort of a time-lapse, expressed as a still image.


eirikso.com/2011/01/04/one-year-in-one-image

via blog.sirmitchell.com/post/15287513336

2012-01-09 08:19:08 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

#Vaccination #Impfung #Visualization #Visualisierung

English - An approach from welshandgrumpy to visualize that vaccination is a social responsibility: http://goo.gl/cbacb The tool visualizes:

1. The random movement of people
2. The spreading of an infect which is conferred by contact within people which are not immune
3. The spreading of an infect within a highly vaccinated population
4. The spreading of an infect within a population with people which cannot be vaccinated and "freeloaders" which choose to not vaccinate
5. When the number of feeloaders increase, a critical number is reached, where herd immunity breaks
6. The situation with a local cluster of freeloaders.... for example a Waldorf school
7. Heard immunity is not an assurance to be protected for people which can not or decide to be not vaccinated
8. "Cocooning" is a... more »

2012-01-08 13:31:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Unfortunately, the Bornean Flat-headed Frog is not currently found within any protected areas. Effective conservation of the large remaining forests that surround its range, and better regulation of gold mining activities, will help preserve its delicate aquatic habitat.

2012-01-08 10:56:53 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Don't be shy!

Millions of people are on Google+, but not getting much out of it. Why? They're shy.

Most people on Google+ have never posted anything publicly, commented, participated in a hangout, posted pictures of themselves or their lives or blocked anyone. Yet these are the very things that make Google+ enriching and enjoyable.

Here's the problem: Google+ is massively powerful.

On Twitter, everyone feels comfortable posting anything. I just searched Twitterfall for the word "dream," and up came these tweets:

"I had a dream i guess it was just a dream tho"

"Dream a little dream of me."

"I wonder what that dream meant :/ lmaooo"

And a thousand others posted within the span of a minute or so.

Posting on Twitter is utterly without consequence.... more »

2012-01-07 10:20:42 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

A hero of the researcher's everyday life! Via "Laborjournal Blog" http://goo.gl/xqkSZ

2012-01-07 10:08:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-01-07 09:56:14 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Well, one of the experts picked up by National Geographic Magazine, +Thomas Shahan, gives you a little introduction in some mind blowing Macro Photography. He starts of with something quite simple. A very cheap set up but when set and used correctly, could bring you much satisfaction, if you would take some time to just watch the video. Remember to add him to your circle.

2012-01-06 18:59:48 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Reading life’s building blocks: Researchers develop tools to speed DNA sequencing
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-lifes-blocks-tools-dna-sequencing.html

2012-01-06 08:20:35 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Masters of Public Health students start blogging in just over a week - using a science blog (http://mtsg.org) to hone their communication skills. We're currently looking for people willing to read and comment on posts a couple of times a week:

2012-01-05 14:11:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#CellBiology - Explore the cell on this site.