Mailund on the Internet

I just got back from the Biology of Genomes meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Labs in NY.  It was my second time there, but a conference I feel I should attend every year.  It is really great for my line of work, and it is great to talk to so many people working on genome analysis and to see so many friends from former and current projects.

It is a bit tough as well. The program goes from 9am to 11pm every day, which is tough when you are jetlagged.

If it wasn’t for my RSI problems I would have blogged from it, but I am still keeping the blogging at an absolute minimum.

Anyway, if you are into sequencing, comparative genomics or sequencing for disease mapping, this is definitely a must conference to attend.

I’m working on a text book chapter and am a few weeks past the deadline, so I haven’t had time to blog lately. I have a few things I’d like to write about as soon as I am done with the chapter, but in the mean time here’s a podcast radio interview with me and Mikkel Schierup (in Danish, though, sorry about that):

• Vi er alle lidt orangutaner

Featuring some of my greatest scientific idols, including Feynman and Sagan

Is blogs really science journalism? Maybe not, but the science news I get, I mainly get from great blogs, so even if it isn’t “proper” science journalism, I think I can say that it is where at least some scientists get their news.

So it is a bit strange when a press officer doesn’t want to talk to bloggers.

• Would you tell a blogger, “I think this is all you need for a blog?”
• In defence of science blogs (yet again)

I know that I would absolutely love to have my research mentioned by Ed Young — I’ve been reading his Not Exactly Rocket Science for years — so if a press officer at AU didn’t give him all the information he wanted, I’d be rather miffed.

I’m watching the latest episode of Supernatural, titled Like a virgin, and something strikes me. In all other aspects of life, experience is a good thing. Howcome, when it comes to sex, not knowing what the hell you are doing is a virtue?

Humans are crazy, it is time to give the bonobos a chance at the top of the food chain.

Completely beside the point, naming a website Virgen scan for virus gene scans is a bad idea. You won’t get the right kind of visitors. I know.

Loved this exchange in the episode of Supernatural:

Dean: So what can you tell me about dragons.

Bobby: They are not like the Loch Ness monster, dragons aren’t real!

Dean: Can you make a few calls?

Bobby: To where? Hogwarts?