RT @brembs: Open Science: making fly tracking open ff.im/-12frvg
Jan Wessnitzer
http://www.wessnitzer.net/jan/
R courses and training material http://felipeortega.net/node...
Fwd: RT @sswchow: 80% PhDs do not become profs. Introducing career streams into academic research http://www.universityaffairs.ca/the-bla... (via http://friendfeed.com/coturni...)
R, now a major programming language, sees a 127% growth in book sales http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2012...
Online resources for handling big data and parallel computing in R http://www.r-bloggers.com/online-...
Fwd: The Auburn Tiger Trapdoor Spider -- A new species discovered from a college town backyard - http://www.youtube.com/watch... (via http://friendfeed.com/danielm...)
Lakes & Oceans: A Deep Infographic http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog...
Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices http://www.guardian.co.uk/science...
Insect and robot navigation http://insectandrobotnavigatio...
Secret Computer Code Threatens Science http://www.scientificamerican.com/article...
Statistical Software Popularity on Google Scholar http://www.r-bloggers.com/statist...
Wellcome Trust joins 'academic spring' to open up science http://www.guardian.co.uk/science...
Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity http://www.alternet.org/visions...
“The best thing about R is that it was developed by statisticians. The worst thing about R is that… it was developed by statisticians.”
saad khan
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The elephant skeletons in the Edinburgh University Anatomy Museum...
The museum only opens its doors once a month but the entry is free and it's certainly worth a visit http://www.museumsgalleriessco...
- Jan Wessnitzer
Saw this and thought of Dr Brembs! ;)
Björn Brembs
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But I hope Dr Brembs won't act on it!
- Jan Wessnitzer
Now that note is so condescending! :-)
- Björn Brembs
That rat/mouse community! ;)
- Jan Wessnitzer
;)
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The science festival is back in town... http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/
Björn Brembs
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This particular picture from an exhibition in St. Andrews Square shows individual lenses of the fruitfly's compound eye with tiny bristles placed between them. What is the biological function of these bristles? The information given was rather vague: either for protection and self-cleaning or to provide a 'sense' of the speed of flight.
- Jan Wessnitzer
C lets you shoot yourself in the foot rather easily. C++ allows you to reuse the bullet!
Cameron Neylon
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Edinburgh this afternoon....
The castle (there in the distance)...... and Arthur's seat....
- Jan Wessnitzer
Sweet!
- Björn Brembs
the view from Blackford Hill...
- Jan Wessnitzer
Fwd: RT @SciPyTip: Comparing NumPy, R, Fortran, MATLAB http://hyperpolyglot.org/numeric... (via http://friendfeed.com/tisimps...)
Fwd: Fish that swallowed a dinosaur that swallowed a fish http://www.newscientist.com/blogs... (via http://friendfeed.com/sathish...)
Fwd: Brains of killer honeybees probed http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature... (via http://friendfeed.com/tisimps...)
Chronozoom: Explore 13.7 Billion Years Of Cosmic History http://www.chronozoomproject.org/#...
Math Movie Quiz http://spikedmath.com/401.html
Or maths film trivia as we would say in the UK ;)
- Jan Wessnitzer
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years http://www.npr.org/blogs...
Fwd: Platform wars | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/blogs... (via http://friendfeed.com/winckel...)
Fwd: Try The McGurk Effect! - Horizon: Is Seeing Believing? - BBC Two - http://www.youtube.com/watch... (via http://friendfeed.com/danielm...)
Fwd: ...and now for some fruit fly learning - http://bjoern.brembs.net/news... (via http://friendfeed.com/brembs...)
Fwd: RT @bengoldacre: Publishers shld give you the eBook when you buy a paper book, just like you get mp3s with vinyl http://www.roughtype.com/archive... (via http://friendfeed.com/steelgr...)
How to program a robotic car - sign up for CS373 http://www.udacity.com/