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William

@madscience

Scientist. Professor. Geek. Insomniac.

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Joined April 2007
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Princeton faculty unanimously approved #openaccess in Nov. Listen to scientists @RepMaloney @DarrellIssa @RushHolt bit.ly/qP2KOW
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RT @MyScienceCareer: Science Careers 2011: The Year's Best Stories: bit.ly/tqHrXf #ScienceCareers
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@Nature3 Jan 2012
Call to censor flu studies draws fire bit.ly/sTIHIF
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Noah Gray@noahWG3 Jan 2012
New year, new science. @NatureNews looks ahead to predict key findings and discoveries which may emerge in 2012: j.mp/uylFUc
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@Nature3 Jan 2012
Most popular on our site now: Chemist faces criminal charges after researcher’s death ow.ly/8gHKh
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RT @chronicle: Dear faculty: I sell Ph.D. advising services on the open market. And your students are buying. chroni.cl/r0Qfje
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.@RyanLizza: HPV vaccine issue ideal for Bachmann, "the most intellectually irresponsible candidate" in GOP field: nyr.kr/o9HN6S
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Race, ethnicity & scientific funding scim.ag/oxIfNj (FREE access)
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@Nature15 Aug 2011
The XKCD take on using T cells to fight leukaemia http://ow.ly/63hpG our slightly less amusing take here http://ow.ly/63hsg ht @eaterof sun
T-Cells

T-Cells

xkcd.com
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At the level of cells, our bodies are 90% microbe and 10% human. So who's occupying whom? Provocative nyti.ms/mPC1pw

Cancer’s Secrets Come Into Sharper Focus (Published 2011)

Recent discoveries in cell biology have complicated the basic principles of the last decade of cancer research.

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RT @NSF: Stats from #NCSES: Percentages of women and minorities in the science and engineering workforce http://ow.ly/5VaBG
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@io910 Aug 2011
Here's what it actually costs to run a university science lab http://io9.com/5827381/
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New featured opinion: bit.ly/qW5xSF
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Hacked! E Coli's genome gets a re-write: bit.ly/o4RMGW
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Genome Revolution Is Skipping Non-Whites: The gold standards of modern genomics research are based almost exclus... http://bit.ly/pteXHd
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@Nature13 Jul 2011
Human history writ large in a single genome http://goo.gl/fb/cN5cp
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Total lifetime cost of space shuttle program was $196 billion. Seems like a pretty good deal, when AIG bailout alone cost $182 billion.
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@Nature8 Jul 2011
RT @JoMarchant Embryonic stem cell research & Islam: my interview with the Qatar Fndtn's head of research http://bit.ly/nrVBmM #wcsj2011
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Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity including division of labour http://bit.ly/mrhPgm
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Give this fun quiz from @sporcle a try: "Can you name the famous biologists?" http://scim.ag/jleg6R How'd you do?
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