At work, we've had Spanish student interning with us over the summer, and I'm suck what to buy her as a leaving gift. She's hoping to stay in Cambridge (currently job hunting, if anyone has any biology-ish vacancies) and we've collected about 50 UKP.

For my day job, I basically do text mining for various pharmaceutical customers (officially referred to as "healthcare informatics"). For various reasons, this involves reading rather a lot of scientific abstracts. I've been in my current job for coming up to three years and am wondering how long it will take me to get through the whole of ( Read more... )

Another one is jiggling his feet and making the floor wobble. I hope my computer gets fixed soon so I can move back to my normal desk.

Some biologists are very brave:
1) Novel papillomavirus isolated from the oral mucosa of a polar bear does not cluster with other papillomaviruses of carnivores.
2) Spatial and temporal variation in size of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) sexual organs and its use in pollution and climate change studies.

The Map kinase kinase kinase family is silly.

Poetry of the vegetable world.

Live heart surgery
BioWisdom's CSO speaks

My employers, BioWisdom, are looking for a senior software engineer. Commercial experience and C#, .Net, Java, XML, RDBMS wanted. Let me know if you know of anyone interested and I'll send you the job specs.

Pharmaceuticals from the human system to the human system: Current management of Pharmaceuticals.org, Inc. in collaboration with Porta-John Systems, Inc. has been developing methods of harvesting human generated toxic pharmaceuticals and human sourced proteins within the scope of operating a portable sanitation business and is very interested in ( Read more... )

Isn't the internet great? I've found some visual guides to animal reproduction. Choose from cow, buffalo, horse or sheep. Just thought I'd share. (Don't look if you're easily squicked)