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With its HeLa genome agreement, the NIH embraces a expansive definition of familial consent in genetics 7 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
I wrote before about the controversy involving the release earlier this year of a genome sequence of the HeLa cell line, which was taken without consent from Henrietta Lacks as she lay dying of ovaria...
Let’s not get too excited about the new UC open access policy 3 Aug 2013 | 02:55 am
It was announced today that systemwide Academic Senate representing the 10 campuses of the University of California system had passed an “open access” policy. The policy will work like this. Before a...
Those who deny access to history are condemned repeatedly 26 Jul 2013 | 11:34 pm
One of the most disappointing aspects of the push for open access to scholarly works has been the role of scholarly societies – who have, with precious few exceptions, emerged as staunch defenders of ...
New Preprint: Uniform scaling of temperature dependent and species specific changes in timing of Drosophila development 25 Jun 2013 | 09:38 am
We posted a new preprint from the lab on arXiv and would love your comments. This work was born of our efforts to look at evolution of transcription factor binding in early embryos across Drosophila....
A CHORUS of boos: publishers offer their “solution” to public access 5 Jun 2013 | 10:46 am
As expected, a coalition of subscription based journal publishers has responded to the White House’s mandate that federal agencies develop systems to make the research they fund available to public by...
Apotheosis of cynicism and deceit from scholarly publishers 22 May 2013 | 10:11 am
The Association of American Publishers, who lobby on behalf of most for-profit and society scholarly publishers, have long opposed moves to make the scientific literature more readily available to the...
WTF? The University of California sides with publishers against the public 21 Apr 2013 | 07:28 pm
The University of California system spends nearly $40 million every year to buy access to academic journals, even though many of the articles are written, reviewed, and edited by UC professors. So you...
Door-to-door subscription scams: the dark side of The New York Times 10 Apr 2013 | 11:23 am
An article appeared on the front page of the Sunday New York Times purporting to expose a “parallel world of pseudo-academia, complete with prestigiously titled conferences and journals that sponsor t...
Toxoplasma, Cat Piss and Mouse Brains: my lab’s first paper on microbial manipulation of animal behavior 3 Apr 2013 | 10:51 am
All animals live in a microbe rich environment, with immense numbers of bacteria, archaea, fungi and other eukaryotic microbes living in, on and around them. For some of these microbes, the associatio...
Toxoplasma, Cat Piss and Mouse Brains: my lab’s first paper on microbial manipulation of animal behavior 3 Apr 2013 | 10:51 am
All animals live in a microbe rich environment, with immense numbers of bacteria, archaea, fungi and other eukaryotic microbes living in, on and around them. For some of these microbes, the associatio...
