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“@Michael - these are some math-ish ones that I could pick out fairly easily - most in with CS/Phys/Math... a couple maybe in with the turquoise group by spin glass...”

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Thankyou, Christina! And for the blog writeup, too, which I enjoyed reading. - Michael Nielsen

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Detecting Communities in Science Blogs - SlideShare

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Interesting stuff. But where's the associated blog post? :-) - Bob O'Hara

I second Bob - Bora Zivkovic

um, which associated blog post? - Christina Pikas

one you will write, that explains the slides in more detail ;-) - Bora Zivkovic

Ok-will do- the videos are supposed to be on the site today, but wasn't loading for me - Christina Pikas

Christina - Nice project! I'd be curious to know if you included mathematical blogs in your study? In my opinion, they are some of the most interesting around, yet they seem to form their own little world, mostly cut off from the rest of the science blogosphere. Were they maybe a separate cluster? - Michael Nielsen

using the spin glass community det algorithm - they fell in with physics and CS (CS blogs were more like theoretical, math-heavy...). I definitely had a bunch of math blogs by both grad students and professors... They weren't completely cut off... - Christina Pikas

http://christinaslibraryrant.b... - Christina Pikas

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Complete Fabrications from My Upcoming Memoir "Ces: That's Not How It's Pronounced"

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“Thinking about a trip to Europe in May. So many options. Make your case here :)”

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Where have you been in Europe already? - Chris Lasher

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Up-and-coming parts of Eastern Europe (Latvia, for example) may be surprising and enlightening in a changing world - Joe Davison

Me, too. Last year: London, Cambridge, Trieste, Belgrade, Berlin. This year I hope for a repeat of Belgrade plus some other places if I can, e.g., Stockholm, Amsterdam, Barcelona....any meeting there where I can get invited? ;-) - Bora Zivkovic

Stockholm and Berlin (let me know if you come to Berlin). - Björn Brembs

I've always wanted to do the Dalmatian coast and the Adriatic. And Spain. - Chris Cotsapas

Chris, on business extensively to the UK, France (mostly Paris), Switzerland (mostly Basel), Germany, Holland, Belgium, Spain (Madrid), Italy (Milan, Trieste, Venice) and I am sure I am missing some. With my wife, Vienna is the only place we've spent enough time. I've been to France and the UK for non-work a few times - Deepak

Just to clarify, this is for a weeks vacation :) - Deepak

several friends have been to Croatia recently and raved. Pictures were amazing... - Andrew Su

How about Norway? - Amund Tveit

Have not been to Norway. Should add that I've been to Denmark and Sweden as well - Deepak

Barcelona, Spain is worth looking. - Pierre

Pierre, Barcelona is definitely on the short list - Deepak

Cities: Praha, Firenze, Roma, Lisboa, Istanbul - Alain Pierrot

Deepak - put it this way. Where else in the world can you stand on a 2000 year old pavement in a building which is pretty much still standing except Bath...on the other hand England in May...bleark! - Cameron Neylon

From the list of places which you haven't yet visited, I put another vote on Barcelona. - Pawel Szczesny

if it is late May you can go midnight golfing in Trondheim, Norway :) - Amund Tveit

Cameron, Exactly. I have been to England too often in May :) - Deepak

berlin, poland (eg warsaw, krakow) - laura

Barcelona is excellent, Amsterdam isn't half as good as it was and depending on your taste Brugge is a popular destination. - Toby Graham

I would suggest Berlin, Poland and Tallinn, Estonia. Helsinki is just ferry ride away as well - Zaki Manian

Stockholm, London and Paris - Christopher Harris

City-vacation: definitely Barcelona (or Amsterdam, but for entirely different reasons) Hiking, outdoors and nature-scenery: - come visit Norway as Amund says - we've got fjords, mountains and lots and lots of isolated strange local people. - Nils Reinton

Living here most of my life, I wonder what people find appealing in Poland ;). - Pawel Szczesny

Polish girls - Leather Donut

city vacation? countryside vacation? - Richard Akerman

+1 for Norway! Studied there for a while - absolutely amazing country. Love the coast and the fjords... - Victor / Mendeley Team

+1 for Norway, and you could add Sweden and Denmark too. One option is the Öresund, Copenhagen Malmö, Lund, Roskilde, Helsingor (=Hamlet's castle), Gothenberg etc. They're all fairly close, so travel isn't difficult. - Bob O'Hara

Oh, and the Tallinn/Helsinki idea (include Tartu too!) is good. I live in Helsinki, so I might be biased. - Bob O'Hara

Do let me know if you come by Copenhagen! :) - Lars Juhl Jensen

Amsterdam. I have a google map of some of my favorite places can't link to it now from phone, but will later when I get back to pdx - Maureen

if ever you set foot in France, let me know: Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon... - Alain Pierrot

Stockholm/Uppsala... love to talk with you about ODOSOS drug discovery... - Egon Willighagen

I love Lisbon and Portugal. - Sarah

Deepak, you should just make a Tour de FriendFeed: European Edition. - Chris Lasher

Sorry, can't help, busy working - David Dobbs

Good point Chris :) Deepak, feel invited to Poland, if you plan to make the Tour de FriendFeed. - Pawel Szczesny

@Chris: Excellent ! :-) Deepak, I can be your guide in the garden of Versailles :-) - Pierre

You're always welcome to visit Hungary. I'm ready to be your guide. :) - Berci Mesko

lol ... that would be fun wouldn't it. I shall present options to the boss and see what she has to say. I miss my 10-15 weeks a year in Europe (from a few years ago) - Deepak

The list above from Alain Pierrot has most of my favorites but I would substitute Lisbon with Porto (Oporto) and add Berlin. If you do go to Portugal tell me in advance and I can give you some tips. - Pedro Beltrao

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Cancer and Statistical Illusion

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Haven't read the article, but IMO one of the central ideas of future medicine is early detection and prevention - Deepak

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“RT @judell: @kidehen Jeannette Wing is spot on when she says computational thinking is core skill everyone should be taught in grade school.”

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To find structural variation, look at read pairs

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Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results?

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“@betsyweber Jing Pro ... lovely :)”

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Yes but is it any good? - Cameron Neylon

It's alright :). Too expensive - Deepak

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Watson's solo discovery of DNA

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Chris and co, time to hack some changes :) - Deepak

+1, don't let them slip away with that! ;) - Yaroslav Nikolaev

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A Wiki Approach to Writing and Publishing Free Textbooks

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Yay for UGA! Go Dawgs! Also, we started a wikibook for our Data Management in Bioinformatics course here at VT, but it fell apart halfway through the semester. At least it's less work for next year's class, so they can add the later content. - Chris Lasher

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Data Analysts Captivated by Power of R

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"In the life science space, R dominates research informatics. A large chunk of molecular profiling methods and techniques use R, or quite often the Bioconductor package, http://www.bioconductor.org/. Most commercial bioinformatics apps also implement a number of methods using R and provide ability to implement R-based classifiers, etc. In the clinical space, it's all SAS. Pretty much the de facto standard." - Deepak

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