Category → Weekly Round-up
This Week on CENtral Science: #Rarediseases, 80s Nostalgia, #Chemclub, and more
Tweet of the Week:
There is not enough coffee for both me and America.
— Dr24Hours (@Dr24hours) May 13, 2013
To the network:
Grand CENtral: Guest Post: “#Chemclub” by Andrew Bissette
Newscripts: In Print: Shall We Play A Game? and Amusing News Aliquots
The Haystack: Biotech, Pharma, & VCs Offer Rare Disease Patient Groups Some Advice
The Watch Glass: “We can now make a few milligrams of anything” and Inspection, with Mustache and Membranes in Immunology and Making of Breaking Bad
This Week on CENtral Science: #scioDC , World’s Smallest Movie, and more
I’m back for the month of May, folks.
Tweet of the Week:
Social media should be a part of the scientific process, just as the manuscript-writing process already is. #sciodc
— Eric Schulze (@SciencEric) May 1, 2013
To the network:
Cleantech Chemistry: Technology (like GMOs) and its Discontents
Grand CENtral: Talking about science online at #sciodc
Newscripts: Looking back at our time in New Orleans and In Print: Horse. It’s What’s For Dinner and “A Boy and His Atom”: The World’s Smallest Movie and Amusing News Aliquots and Flame Challenge 2: The Answers Are In
The Safety Zone: Patrick Harran ordered to stand trial in #SheriSangji case and Ripped from the pages: More on the West Fertilizer explosion in Texas and Hearing scheduled for David Snyder in UC Davis explosives case and Friday chemical safety round up
The Watch Glass: Lunar Chemical History and Acid Rain and Science at EPA and Advice to a Young Scientist
Last week on CENtral Science: #ChemMovieCarnival, #ChemSafety, and #ChemEd
Doh! Apologies for not sending the weekly roundup out on its usual Friday afternoon. Adding insult to injury, there’s no tweet of the week. I’ll try to get a double-helping for you on Friday.
To the network:
Just Another Electron Pusher: #ChemMovieCarnival – The Absent-Minded Professor
Newscripts: Chemistry of the Bar: Amaretto 101 and #ChemMovieCarnival: Dramatic Acid-Base Chemistry in Fight Club and Amusing News Aliquots and In Print: Mosh Pit Simulator
Terra Sigillata: Why Chemistry Should Care About Humanities Higher Education
The Safety Zone: Friday chemical safety round up and Stony Brook chemistry incorporates lab safety into Research Day celebration and Ripped from the pages: DHS lagging on chemical security, CSB has offshore jurisdiction, and hydrofluoric acid concerns
The Watch Glass: Talking about global warming in 1989, chemical forensics trace threat agents, pheromone lures control beetles, a book review of “African American Women Chemists,” and plutonium weighing helped open the atomic age
This Week on CENtral Science: Fireworks Disposal, Not-so- Alternative Careers, and More
Tweet of the Week:
UC flack to me: Email is best way to contact researcher since many depts ditched phones due to budget cuts. What a world.
— Sam Lemonick (@SamLemonick) March 28, 2013
When I read this I thought– Really?? Then I figured, well, why not? I haven’t had a land line since college. But I’m still wondering how big a chunk of change a phone bill really is in the grand scheme of the UC budget.
Rachel will be handling this roundup during April. Until May, chem-keteers.
To the network:
Newscripts: In Print: Europe’s Got A Stink Problem and Fashion Police: Science Shoes and Amusing News Aliquots
Terra Sigillata: Saturday Morning Natural Products PharmChem Radio! and Dr. Gina Stewart on Career Flexibility and Entrepreneurship
The Safety Zone: Letter on Donaldson Enterprises fatal fireworks incident and Defining chemical safety, health, hygiene, and security
The Watchglass: Kevlar Inventor Stephanie Kwolek and Behind that Chess Pic and Protein Folding and Lise Meitner and Carbonyl Attack and Radioimmunoassays take ’77 Nobel
This Week on CENtral Science: Harlem Shake, Natural gas, and more
Tweet of the Week:
My to do list is so massive, it has started to develop its own gravity.
— Katherine Haxton (@kjhaxton) March 22, 2013
To the network:
Cleantech Chemistry: Natural Gas and Cleantech
Newscripts: Celebrating Pi: Don’t Try This at Home and Harlem Shake ft. Tryptophan and Amusing News Aliquots
The Haystack: New Targets in Advanced Prostate Cancer
The Safety Zone: Friday chemical safety round up
The Watchglass: Chemistry Chess and Biochemist Gerty Cori and Vitamin B-12 Synthesis and Lasers on the Upswing and Potential Anticancer Agent
This Week on CENtral Science: Papal Chemistry, Neuroscience of Magic, Pi Day, and more
Tweet of the Week:
Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, came late to the priesthood after studying chemistry. My question is: What turned him off to chemistry?
— Gary Garchar (@ggarchar) March 14, 2013
I’ve had a blast as CENtral Science overlord. Like other despots before me, I have a hard time letting go of power. So now that Rachel’s back, we’ll be switching off on these roundup posts each month.
To the network:
Fine Line: Waldorf Time Again
Grand CENtral: Top 10 Shoutouts to Pope Francis and Chemistry – Storify
Just Another Electron Pusher: A Troubling Shift in Tradition
Newscripts: Alakazam! The Neuroscience of Magic and Amusing News Aliquots and There & Back Again: A Cyclotron’s Tale
Terra Sigillata: How Would You Explain pH to First-Graders? and Are Popes and Chemistry Immiscible?
The Safety Zone: UK thallium and arsenic poisoning case neither accident nor suicide attempt and Explosives case continued for former UC Davis chemist David Snyder and Friday chemical safety round up *not up as of 4:20PM Eastern, but this link will work when it posts.
The Watch Glass: “Inert” Xenon Reacts with Fluorine and Nanotubes’ Electronic Properties and Bohemian retorts and Calculate pi with frozen hot dogs and Albert Ghiorso: Element Builder
This Week On CENtral Science: Richard’s Lionheart, Physics Proposal, And More
Tweet of the Week:
@chemjobber @carmendrahl I have a total synthetic man-crush on Baran…
— Alan Florjancic (@AlanFlorjancic) March 5, 2013
and a runner-up:
@carmendrahl The resveratrol research makes you want to drink a bottle of red wine to cope, which is appropriately meta.
— Carrie Arnold (@edbites) March 7, 2013
Thanks again to this week’s guest blogger, Fredrik. And thanks to Derek Lowe for mentioning his post!
To the network:
Artful Science: Daisies, frankincense, mint, and mercury help preserve Richard the Lionheart’s heart
Grand CENtral: Guest Post: “Screw anonymous—Maybe? Reclaim synthesis—Definitely!” by Fredrik von Kieseritzky
Newscripts: Getting Down On One Knee … With A Physics Paper and Amusing News Aliquots
The Safety Zone: Incorporating safety into good research conduct and A safety warning on Togni’s reagents
The Watch Glass: Name That Chemist and It’s Young K.C. Nicolaou! and Chemistry of Interstellar Space and Technical Information Crisis and Hydrothermal Vent Chemistry
This Week on CENtral Science: Pancreatic Cancer Drug Candidates, Photo Fraud, Toaster Bacon, and more
Tweet of the Week:
ready to wake up popeless & sequestered
— Barney Grubbs (@barneygrubbs) March 1, 2013
Honorable Mention: anything under the hashtag #sciquester
To the network:
Artful Science: Photo fraud: eBay to the rescue!
Just Another Electron Pusher: I know. Enough with the bad news, already.
Newscripts: Amusing News Aliquots and Science Is Hard
Terra Sigillata: Must-See ACS Webinar: Superbugs and Drug Development and “Suicide Before PhD Defense”
The Haystack: New Developments in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer from ASCO GI 2013 – Part 1 and Part 2
The Safety Zone: Friday chemical safety round up
The Watchglass: Fast Response and Linus Pauling Day and Durable Peace and Mimicking Photosynthesis and Amino Acid Dreams and Liquid Crystals