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2013-05-08 14:59:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

*Facebook Rejects Ad Highlighting Zuckerberg Group’s Support For Keystone XL*

"When a subsidiary of Mark Zuckerberg’s new political group started airing ads for expanded oil drilling and the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, CREDO Action decided to post an ad of their own calling Zuckerberg out — on Facebook.

"This morning, Facebook rejected CREDO’s Facebook ad (pictured right). According to CREDO Action, Facebook initially informed them they rejected the ad because it used Facebook trademarks — specifically, Zuckerberg’s image. Though the image used was fully licensed for creative commons use, a Facebook representative told ThinkProgress that any images of Zuckerberg are off-limits, as he is part of the Facebook brand. The rules governing Facebook brand usage specify “trademarks, names, domain names, logos” but does not explicitly restrictimages of Zucke... more »

2013-04-25 02:19:39 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

2013-04-24 02:23:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"How to design for Google Glass" http://feedly.com/k/XEi1DH

2013-04-23 20:11:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Tooth and Throat Singing" http://feedly.com/k/ZkM5X9

2013-04-23 20:01:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"#932; The Baby Song" http://feedly.com/k/YJHE3o

2013-04-23 19:58:49 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"How the Jordanian Government Killed the Metal Scene" http://feedly.com/k/11hg7rM

2013-04-23 19:55:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Flowchart for movie time travel" http://feedly.com/k/17UvonD

2013-04-23 19:52:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Why j for imaginary unit?" http://feedly.com/k/12ccqVQ

2013-04-23 01:30:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

"Connecting Form and Function: Serial Block-face EM" http://cellularscale.blogspot.com/2013/04/connecting-form-and-function-serial.html

2013-04-22 20:58:58 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Chechnya, Dagestan, and the North Caucasus: A Very Brief History" http://feedly.com/k/11fgjYo

2013-04-22 20:53:13 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

"Chechens, Czechs, whatever" http://feedly.com/k/Zz85fm

2013-04-19 22:21:12 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Ignoring the "daddy issues" aspect of the analysis, this article offers some nice context on Chechnya.

2013-04-19 03:28:14 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Human Brain Mapping Hackathon in 2013" http://feedly.com/k/Z30YNG

2013-04-18 21:02:40 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

When you listen to music, there is a copy of the song in your brain, which is thus a copyright violation. http://feedly.com/k/115bhxF

2013-04-18 20:54:08 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Should we make PhDs pay for their degrees?

"So crazy it just might work" http://feedly.com/k/17JwiDd

2013-04-17 15:18:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

“It’s the STEM jobs, stupid” http://feedly.com/k/YvcxbG

2013-04-16 19:18:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

The CLARITY technique for clearing brains was making a lot of buzz last week, but we in the invert neurobiology community have been doing that for decades.

A gallery of neurons, seen through cleared neural tissue, for your enjoyment.

2013-04-16 16:24:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Live streaming shortly, 9.30am today at <http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=12961> is the UK's Business, Innovation and Skills Committee's inquiry on #OpenAccess  featuring witnesses ranging from the +Public Library of Science (PLoS) to +Reed Elsevier. 

2013-04-16 16:24:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Live streaming shortly, 9.30am today at <http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=12961> is the UK's Business, Innovation and Skills Committee's inquiry on #OpenAccess  featuring witnesses ranging from the +Public Library of Science (PLoS) to +Reed Elsevier. 

2013-04-16 16:23:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Live streaming shortly, 9.30am today at <http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=12961> is the UK's Business, Innovation and Skills Committee's inquiry on #OpenAccess  featuring witnesses ranging from the +Public Library of Science (PLoS) to +Reed Elsevier. 

2013-04-15 15:05:40 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

My latest blog post: Why it is important for neuroscientists to debate the Brain Initiative in public

2013-04-12 23:18:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Locations of every photo from International Space Station" http://feedly.com/k/17uGdfK

2013-04-12 22:59:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Social networks in fact and fiction" http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/04/12/social-networks-in-fact-and-fiction/

2013-04-10 17:59:44 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"This $1000 dragon puts regular ol' rocking horses to shame" http://feedly.com/k/YddTru

2013-04-09 23:03:22 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

"What about tea?"

2013-04-07 06:49:20 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"Tweets, Crises and Behavioral Psychology: On Credibility and Information Sharing" http://feedly.com/k/10shRzv

2013-04-05 19:57:23 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

"Vaccines, Viruses, and the Anti-Vax Movement" http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2013/04/05/vaccines-viruses-and-the-anti-vax-movement/

2013-04-05 19:50:51 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"“Dihydrogen monoxide” joke gets DJs suspended" http://feedly.com/k/14K2eri

2013-04-05 19:48:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"San Diego Beer through the Years" http://blog.stonebrew.com/index.php/san-diego-beer-through-the-years/

2013-04-04 17:24:38 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

"Congress Obsessed with American Muslims, Neglects real threat of White Supremacists" http://feedly.com/k/ZBVJPg

2013-04-03 01:55:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

If only Calvin had Wikipedia http://feedly.com/k/16temv1

2013-04-03 01:54:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"welcome to a world where the word "reputation" doesn't exist and everything is understood in terms of corporations" http://feedly.com/k/XV2qgb

2013-04-01 22:55:55 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

"There is no question that half of the students in that grade 11 class [in Vietnam] could pass the Google interview process."

2013-03-30 22:41:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Bach and Handel regularly reworked material from one composition for another; were they self-plagiarists?

2013-03-30 22:08:13 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-03-27 22:52:34 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

“Hands Free Lab Notebook”: Smartphones are ubiquitous, but they are impractical in the laboratory. Gloves prevent interaction with touchscreens, chemicals prevent keyboard use, and scientists are already juggling too much. #ifihadglass, I would develop a hands-free lab notebook app for Google Glass, with experiment management, observation transcription and reference searching.

+Project Glass +Osvaldo Colavin 

2013-03-23 20:32:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

UCSD neuroscience outreach program showing people how awesome the nervous system is at the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering!

We're here at Petco Park in San Diego until 6pm, come on down!

We've got:
-sheep brains you can touch
-penguin, mantra ray, and other interesting brains you can look at
-a Spiker Box from Backyard Brains demonstrating electrical recordings from a cockroach leg
-a Roboroach also from Backyard Brains - a cockroach whose movements we can control by stimulating its antennae

2013-03-22 21:21:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Announcing the Off the beaten (tenure) track interview series

#leavingacademia  

Leaving academia has always been a very personal subject for me. After my own experiences and attending the session led by
+Catherine Anderson and +Mark Hahnel at +ScienceOnline 2013 on life after leaving academia, I decided that it would be useful to profile people who have made that transition. I am happy to announce that I'll be profiling several people under the Off the beaten (tenure) track interview series. 

Thanks to everyone who is participating and if you'd like to participate, or know of someone who should, please let me know!

2013-03-15 04:35:38 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

The Reader shutdown is putting two things into sharp relief for me:

• Google is making a mistake, but at least they're doing this the right way. We have three months to find alternatives so we got plenty of advance warning. And they provide good ways to export and migrate our data from the service. This is in sharp contrast to other service providers that do everything they can to make migration difficult.

• For all that they handle it well, depending on one service provider makes me vulnerable. I've worried a bit about GMail before; this only reinforces my wish to move to a non-Google email provider for my webmail (my private email mostly never touches GMail).

Now I also start to worry about Blogger. I have years of blog entries there; it may not be of much value to anybody else, but it does make for a public-facing diary and occasional tiny soapbox, and I'dlik... more »

2013-03-09 00:04:05 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-03-02 18:22:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-02-25 02:54:37 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

A wonderfully down-to-earth analysis of what BAM and the Blue Brain projects really are about.

Hint: not mind control or AI

2013-02-25 02:22:18 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-02-23 06:26:45 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Social Science students at UC San Diego have developed a free web app they call “KA Lite” to bring the revolution in online education to the 65 percent of the world that isn’t online. #ucsd #khanacademy  

2013-02-22 22:08:14 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Machine learning cheat sheet (for +Balaji Sriram )

2013-02-18 20:53:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-02-17 23:45:25 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Using GIFs to visualize the variation in bird songs
Here, 18 songs of a Vesper Sparrow are graphed and animated, showing how the opening notes vary little, while the ending varies greatly.  Perhaps the stereotyped opening lets the bird identify itself unambiguously to a potential mate or rival (“I am a typical Vesper Sparrow!”), while the jazzy ending allows it to show off its improvisational virtuosity (“I’m not your ordinary Vesper Sparrow!”).

http://earbirding.com/blog/archives/4231
#sciencesunday  

2013-02-16 16:13:30 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-02-14 05:30:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-02-12 05:57:50 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Talk about a sleeper ride
This kid is funny and talented. You might see this as a piece of junk. If you factor in the kids sense of humor, it's actually pretty amazing that he put all this together.

via Reddit