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The Bioscreencast blog gets its own domain

Still a lot of work to do (logo, plugins, etc) but we have moved the bioscreencast blog to its own residence instead of hosting it at Wordpress.com. The main reason; the ability to embed videos, the second; putting it under the bioscreencast.com domain. The additional flexibility is always a plus. If you were subscribed [...]
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The CARMEN data portal

Neuroscience is a fascinating subject for many, and for various reasons, I have a rather soft spot for the field. The computational challenges of neuroscience are, surprise surprise, rather intriguing. After all, our brain is in many ways the ultimate computer, and we are always trying to figure out how it works and [...]
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The power of Second Life

I use Google Calendar extensively. Among the various calendars I subscribe to is one of science events in Second Life As you can see there is a ton of good stuff going on. Unfortunately, the best events, like the various Second Nature Lecture Series and the Scifoo Lives On events are usually at times [...]
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100 not out

A few months ago, we decided that a website where life scientists could load screencasts was a good idea. That wee little website, Bioscreencast.com just hit an important milestone. Earlier today, Bronwen Dekker, Assistant Editor at Nature Protocols uploaded what turned out to be screencasts number 99 and 100. Bronwen’s screencasts are another excellent [...]
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The paperless PhD

Back when we thought about putting Bioscreencast together, we had a vision of people doing their daily work, realizing that there was something interesting to share, turning on their favorite screencasting app, and then recording a screencast. Today, Michael Pascoe uploaded a screencast that, for me, personifies that vision. In the screencast below, [...]
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