http://blog.scilink.com Science Connected Mon, 11 May 2009 16:31:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tom, Can you tell us a little about your background? how did you get into science and interested in a system's approach? As an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin I pursued dual interests in biology and English literature. I came across Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan’s Microcosmos, ... http://blog.scilink.com/?p=55 May SciLink Updates and Announcements File Sharing Comes To SciLink! We are pleased to announce the addition of file sharing to the SciLink platform. You can now upload files to your profile and send these files to groups that you have joined. If the file is an image, it will become instantly ... http://blog.scilink.com/?p=54 We're switching our servers to Amazon's cloud. This has been a bit of a slow process and has caused some downtime of our service. We believe that this switch will aid in our future up time, responsiveness and scalability. More importantly, we will be able to better respond and maintain ... http://blog.scilink.com/?p=53 Can it be true? Are all of us blue? We'd like to know here at SciLink. Help us out by logging into your account and cast your vote! You need to have an account to vote. We'll publish our results after we perform our analysis on November 5! Here's an interesting ... http://blog.scilink.com/?p=52 http://blog.scilink.com/?p=49 Truly Amazing - Enough Said... Embedded video from CNN Video http://blog.scilink.com/?p=48 If you haven't heard, we recently updated the site with events, meetings and conference listings. At SciLink we're trying hard to keep you up to date with the scientific world and your network. We do this in a number of different and complementary ways. First, your dashboard is a portal ... http://blog.scilink.com/?p=47 This is an unprecedented amount of money to provide to a research institution. I think people forget just how amazing Eric Lander is as an executive and business person. You couldn't ask for a better science based executive. Read below: Less than five years into a ten-year groundbreaking experiment in ... http://blog.scilink.com/?p=46 We're still at it, making general improvements to the site, fixing bugs and adding features. As usual, here's the executive summary: We partnered with Simply Hired  to give you the best and most comprehensive scientific job board on the web.  Check out "Job Trends" which was also made available through our partnership with Simply ... http://blog.scilink.com/?p=20 None of us in the first world have the time. We don't have the time to do all thing things we're supposed to do. We're too busy consuming. Yet one person has made it his life's work to find the time to make sure the poor get proper healthcare. I ... http://blog.scilink.com/?p=45