I tightened up my earlier response to John Conyers’ letter, and it’s now on the Huffington Post front page. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-eisen/john-conyers-tries-and-fa_b_172944.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-lessig-and-michael-eisen/is-john-conyers-shilling_b_171189.html
Steve Quake has an interesting post on Olivia Judson’s blog (Quake is a guest columnist while she is on sabbatical) about what life is like for a scientist at a modern research university. The interesting stuff is at the end, when he talks about how labs are funded. It’s a particularly important time to think about [...]
Last year, Peter Hotez published an editorial in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases in which he proposed that rather than just close the prison at Guantonamo Bay, we instead establish a “center of excellence on the diseases of poor that … would directly address poverty and health disparities in the worst-off nations in Central and South [...]
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Was up working all night, and, as I should have been focusing on my grant, I instead kept trying to figure out just what it was that I was feeling about Obama’s victory. The historical nature of the election brought tears to my eyes – how could it not. And I am already planning a [...]
President Obama or a Tampa-Philadelphia World Series
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I'm an evolutionary biologist at UC Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. My research focuses on the evolution and population genomics of gene regulation in flies. I am also very interested in promoting various forms of open science. And most importantly, I am a Red Sox fan.