Weekly Twitter Roundup

Posted by Dan Vorhaus on March 26, 2010

Each week there are a number of stories and developments that, for one reason or another, don’t find their way into a full-length posting on the Genomics Law Report. Here’s a recap of what I was Tweeting this week @genomicslawyer:

New Tools for Forensic DNA: Keyboards and Cats http://bit.ly/bdA8UG
RT @dgmacarthur: Scientists need to have the guts to admit to uncertainty, says UK statistician: http://bit.ly/cAGvxy
RT @BiotechPatent: RT @Xconomy Healthcare Reform Gave Biotech Everything It Wanted, and More http://xconomy.com/?p=70005
RT @dgmacarthur: A more positive take on the use of genetics in breast-cancer risk models by @EdwardWinstead: http://bit.ly/bZQD9F
Why Businesses Don’t Experiment. http://bit.ly/dDfita Interesting perspective; see it often. (Harvard Biz Review; HT @SciTri)
RT @EdwardWinstead: Terrific interview with Dr Leroy Hood by @labgrab http://bit.ly/cj6LKk many topics including family genome sequencing
Illumina Still Dominate Sequencing Market: ABI and 454 Jockey for 2nd Place: http://bit.ly/bXduuP
Genetic Genealogy on the Small Stage: the DNA Trail by the Silk Road Theatre Project? http://bit.ly/97Htpy Any Chicagoans been?
After White House & Congress, Health Bill Headed to the Courts: http://bit.ly/boM8SV (WSJ Health)
Going global? @CompleteGenomic “accelerating…plans to open satellite genome seq…centers around the world” http://bit.ly/aMM5kk
RT @Ryan_McBride: How did #Ironwood Pharmaceuticals pull off its historic biotech #IPO? CEO Peter Hecht tells Xconomy http://bit.ly/daQINF
RT @nanopore: The Personal Genome Project (@PGorg) is collaborating with Google Health http://bit.ly/aeSYW0
“Choosing not to use genetic testing is an option. Ignorance isn’t.” http://bit.ly/bcaVSR My Times op-ed with @dgmacarthur
The Cost of Making Crime Not Pay: Obama, CODIS and Forensic DNA: http://bit.ly/b8Bjr2
RT @PHCdispatch: Personalized Medicine Poised to Become Part of US Healthcare Reform Plan – http://bit.ly/d9iUFq (v @gw_dailyscan)
Re: Statistics in Science (http://bit.ly/9iRJxr): if scientists can’t get stats right, how are patients to understand them (e.g., risk)?
Last Tweet: “…if you believe what you read in the scientific literature, you shouldn’t believe what you read in the scientific literature”
RT @dgmacarthur: Great article on the all-too-common abuses of statistics in science: http://bit.ly/aaIeON (via @neandrothal)
From genomic sequence to gene expression to “an automated disease diagnosis databse”? http://bit.ly/ddbZWF (via @GenomeWeb_News)
Very cool. RT @bmahersciwriter: See where the donors of 17 million DNA sequences came from http://bit.ly/9JhBQH
Great slate of upcoming webinars from @geneticalliance, incl gene patents & newborn/carrier screening http://bit.ly/bb2WHy
If you’ve read #HeLa by @RebeccaSkloot, and have a question, you can ask it here: http://bit.ly/bYCdjp
RT @mikesgene: A Clever Periodic Table from @sciencebase: http://bit.ly/dzUQso
Any research scientists share this op? RT @virginiahughes: Will you miss ‘Medical Hypotheses’ ? I might, actually. http://wp.me/p1DO7-yw
RT @matthewherper: Funny. RT @dgmacarthur RT @lukejostins: America takes a step towards becoming a Developed Country http://nyti.ms/cAPm57
The New York Times vs. Personal Genomics: Much Ado About Not Very Much: http://bit.ly/9FqTiu
‘Junk’ DNA gets credit for making us who we are: http://bit.ly/cWzJG7 (New Scientist, HT @FurnoX)
Underrepresentation in personal genomics research particularly relevant; finally reading (and loving) #HeLa by @RebeccaSkloot this wknd
RT @Berci: Participation in Genetic Testing Research Varies by Social Group http://ff.im/-hO4k1
RT @dgmacarthur: Andrew Pollack’s NYT much-anticipated “attack piece” on personal genomics is actually pretty tame: http://nyti.ms/c0pEMI
RT @tgoetz: From Godwins Law -> Goetz’s Law: any comment thread abt health will eventually become an antivax rant. See http://bit.ly/9QXsPR
RT @EdwardWinstead: Totally fun for Friday @sciencebase builds a periodic table of science bloggers. Grab an element now! http://j.mp/aTGZPW
RT @dgmacarthur: Great piece from @tgoetz about the failure to treat cancer as a preventable disease: http://bit.ly/aXPB8M
RT @EdwardWinstead, @OpenHelix NCBI announces dbVar database for CNV genome structural variation http://bit.ly/bdo9Xl