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Notes on Sources | Pasco Phronesis

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Muddling Through Science and Technology Policy. I’ll make notes here about sources in this blog and how they might affect your reading of it. Updates will either have a date in the text or as a parenthetical. There are two main categories of concern – stuff behind pay walls and broken links. If you note either on this blog that haven’t been mentioned in that post or on this page, holler (E-mail, comment, or site feedback). Has opted to make their news archive available to all. Good on them. Changes in go...

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Who we work with | Microbiology Society

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Skip to the content. Skip to the menu. Skip to the search. The Microbiology Society is a membership organisation for scientists who work in all areas of microbiology. The history of the Microbiology Society. Find out about the Society's aims and objectives, and read our vision and mission statements. The Society is governed by a group called the Council who are legally responsible for the work of the Society. Early Career Microbiologists' Forum Executive Committee. Find out who's who at the Society.

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Microbial Soup: 3D optical microscopy

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It's Life, Jim, but.". As a scientist primarily researching in structural biology, I'm always interested in techniques in which the data is visual - whether they be direct microscopic or telescopic images, or derived, such as electron density maps or tomographic reconstructions. Recently, I read a very interesting article in Physics World. That), but I found the web-page of the author, Alan Greenaway, which I'd like to share. Labels: 3D microscopy adaptive optics. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Microbial Soup: June 2010

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It's Life, Jim, but.". As a research scientist it’s easy to forget just how esoteric your work can appear to the rest of the world. Today for instance, I Tweeted about a fascinating. Demonstrating DNA repair was coupled to the swarming mechanism in Salmonella. Can’t for the life of me understand it, but the simple joys of battling pathogenic bugs via their DNA processing mechanisms isnt high on everyone’s agenda. Who’d have thought that! 8221; It surprised me a little. Jestful? Links to this post. I'm su...

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Microbial Soup: Revamp

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It's Life, Jim, but.". Apologies to anyone who had a feed subscription to Microbial Soup and wondered what the heck has been going on. I've been hacking it about a bit, including older posts, hence the mad feed of old posts you might have encountered in the last 24 hours. All done now and I promise, it won't happen again ;-). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to Microbial Soup. If you like labels here are two, I’m a University research scientist and Dad to a 2 year old. View my complete profile.

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On Science and the Media: May 2010

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On Science and the Media. Tuesday, 11 May 2010. Evan Harris: parliament loses a champion for science. Waking up to the news that Dr Evan Harris. The Liberal Democrat science spokesperson, had lost his seat. It was eagle-eyed Evan Harris who first spotted the line in the draft Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. That revealed that government may move to ban. Arriving in the office after Evan’s defeat I discovered that my personal sense of dismay was widely shared. With hundreds of scientists, science...

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Resources « the bug

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Bacteria * science * policy and communication *. My research and interests. This page is pretty much a directory of useful links I’ve collected. Policy links are at the top of the page, communication links are near the bottom. I’ll be adding more as I go along – let me know if you have suggestions! Parliament, Government, Politics. POST (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology) – http:/ www.parliament.uk/post. The Royal Society – http:/ royalsociety.org/policy/. CRUK (Cancer Research UK) public po...

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Boring Biography

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The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets. Fermat’s Last Theorem. Fermat’s Last Theorem: The Book. Fermat’s Last Theorem: The TV Documentary. What is the Last Theorem? Who is Andrew Wiles? Reviews of The Code Book. Big Bang: The Book. Crypto CD-ROM – WARNING – written with 16-bit software, so requires Microsoft Virtual PC to run on Windows 7 or later Windows. Schools & Teachers. Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People. The Science of Secrecy: Going Public. The story of this notorious mathematical pr...

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On Science and the Media: November 2010

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On Science and the Media. Wednesday, 10 November 2010. Science funding and Channel 4 film on the green movement. It was great to learn from science minister David Willetts that those of us who spent the Saturday afternoon before the Spending Review. Outside the Treasury forcing the words 'science is vital' into the verses of Pink Floyd classics. Of course it was not Willetts who set up the grassroots group Science is Vital. Articles. Science and education specialists at the Guardian also obliged afte...

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Subjective Science: October 2010

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Monday, 11 October 2010. The Science is Vital Letter I Sent to Sir Paul Beresford MP (Mole Valley) on 23rd Sept - and got no reply. Dear Sir Beresford,. I am contacting you to highlight my support for the Science is Vital. Campaign, the details of which are given in their template letter to. I would also like to highlight my own situation to you to make clear. One of the current problems in publicly funded research. I have. Recently completed a PhD in high energy physics at Imperial College and. Is a rea...