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| Blog Name: | The Scientific Activist |
| Url: | http://scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | science, politics, policy |
| Description: | The scientific Activist is your source for news and commentary on science, politics, and the exciting areas where these dynamic fields clash. Recognizing science as a path toward understanding nature, distinct from corporate and other applications, The Scientific Activist opens up a new dialogue on the proper role of science in an ever changing society. The truth isn't always black or white, but an informed public is an empowered one, so I won't shy away from the complex issues. Most importantly, though, The Scientific Activist takes on the people and obstacles standing in the way of the progress and proper application of science. Enemies of science, beware! The Scientific Activist has been featured in The New York Times, Nature, and other major publications. The blog's author, Nick Anthis, is a graduate student in biochemistry at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on structural biology, NMR, protein-protein interactions, intrinsically unstructured proteins, and cell adhesion and migration. |
| Popularity: | 55 Followers |
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Rhodes Secretary: Wall Street Megabonuses Draining Our Young Talent
| In the op-ed pages of The Washington Post today, Elliot Gerson--the American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust--takes a bold stand: Tonight, 32 young Americans will win Rhodes Scholarships. Their tenures at Oxford are funded by the legacy of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, a man whose life would not be honored today were it not for his vision that young people of outstanding intellect, leadership and ambition could make the world a better place. For more than a century Rhodes scholars have left Oxford with virtually any job available to them. For much of this t |
On Mimicking Phosphotyrosine
| When doing science, there's generally one totally optimal way of performing an experiment. But, there may also be several other less optimal means of gathering similar data, and one of those may be much more feasible than the totally optimal method. As a scientist, you have to determine whether this other method is sufficient, or whether it's necessary to expend the extra effort and/or resources on the more difficult method. Sometimes it's totally fine to take the simpler approach (and this will spare |
AMA Advocates Change in Marijuana Classification
| Yesterday, the influential AMA (American Medical Association) announced that it would cease its opposition to the concept of medical marijuana and instead advocate for a change in federal classification of the drug. From the LA Times: The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant shift that puts the prestigious group behind calls for more research. The nation's largest physicians organization, with about 250,000 member doctors, |
Two New Papers on Integrin Activation
| Just as I was in the process of finishing my doctorate in August, I found out that my first first-author paper had been accepted for publication by The EMBO Journal. This was good news, because we were reporting some pretty fundamental findings in a relatively saturated field, and one of our competitors had managed to successfully stall the acceptance of this paper since March. Up until that point, witnessing this happen firsthand had been a somewhat frustrating and disillusioning experience |
New Interactive 3D Molecular Images in Scientific Articles
| Late last week, I received emails from two journals (The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) and PLoS ONE) indicating that they are now incorporating interactive 3D images of molecular structures in their papers. The atomic coordinates of all published biomolecular structures have been available for some time at the Protein Data Bank. However, making sense of something as complex as a protein structure can require quite a bit of an |
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