We, Beasties Archive

Explanation

From 2010-2013, I wrote the We, Beasties blog on scienceblogs.com.

The site is still there, but I decided I should grab the content, just in case. You can read how I did this using julia in a 2-part post;

This is just an archive of that written content. Enjoy!

Posts

September 3, 2013 We, Beasties Sporulates
August 5, 2013 Anti-science is not a state of mind
June 12, 2013 Living Factories: How Scientists Engineer Microbes to Make Useful Molecules
June 1, 2013 UCS response to my piece in SciAm
May 21, 2013 Science, Racism and Political Correctness
May 15, 2013 OAS Wednesday - Activating immunity to suppress autoimmunity.
May 14, 2013 Union of Concerned Scientists Failing on Farming
April 15, 2013 List of links/phone #s for people in need of help (or offering help) #BostonHelp #bostonmarathon
April 12, 2013 AskScience Live a Success! (I think) #askscilive
April 9, 2013 Ask Science... Live! Thursday at 6pm EDT #askscilive
April 5, 2013 Friday Link Dump
March 22, 2013 Friday Link Dump
March 20, 2013 OAS Wednesday - Location, location, location
March 1, 2013 A few pounds of microbes, only ounces of insight
February 19, 2013 OAS Wednesday - Semen Boosts the Immune System! Helps HIV
February 18, 2013 Lecture 3a - Cell Biology and the Organization of Multicellular Life #SC-214
February 12, 2013 PeerJ - the science journal we need and deserve
February 8, 2013 Snow, cold, influenza and colds - Temperature and Infectious Disease
January 26, 2013 Women climbers are amazing too
January 22, 2013 Rock Climbing, Fat Fingers and Arthritis
January 21, 2013 AskScience: Why do microorganisms only begin breaking down our tissues after death? What stops them from doing so whilst we are still alive?
January 15, 2013 AskScience: Is it possible to get multiple different colds/flu viruses at the same time?
January 13, 2013 Lecture 2b: Genes, Traits and the Central Dogma.
December 22, 2012 Lecture 2a: Intro to Evolution
December 21, 2012 I'm back baby!
September 10, 2012 Lecture 1: Why is Science Awesome? #Emerson #SC214
August 28, 2012 Plagues and Pandemics - Emerson SC-214
August 21, 2012 Maybe He Was Talking About Ducks
August 9, 2012 The Best Argument in Favor of Open Access Science is All of Them
August 1, 2012 Ebola Outbreak in Uganda - Both More and Less Frightening Than You Think
June 6, 2012 Leveraging Immunology Research to Treat Disease
May 27, 2012 Scienceblogs RSS and other dilemas
May 25, 2012 How the immune system gets where it needs to go
May 23, 2012 Aaaaaand we're up!
May 23, 2012 The Center for Science and Democracy
May 22, 2012 Test post infinity
May 12, 2012 Technology and Intent
April 24, 2012 Harvard Libraries join the fight for open access
April 20, 2012 Oil for Food - Microbe Style
April 17, 2012 New Year's Resolution: Blogging
February 28, 2012 I'm Too Sexy for Your... Virus? Or, Immunity as it Relates to Peacocks
February 27, 2012 Open Laboratory 2013
February 24, 2012 A Vaccine for Drug Addiction
February 21, 2012 The Future of Science Publishing
February 15, 2012 Scientists need to get involved in policy
February 14, 2012 Happy Valentine's Day Everyone
January 26, 2012 Fuel from Seaweed
January 18, 2012 Vaccinating Against Semen - Immunity as Contraceptive
January 13, 2012 Public Parts: A book review
January 9, 2012 Allergies, Asthma and Eczema - New SITN Flash
January 6, 2012 World go Boom
January 5, 2012 Immunity to Spunk
January 3, 2012 Confidential to Savage Lovecast Listeners
December 21, 2011 Obesity, Inflammation, and Diabetes
December 19, 2011 Allergies 101: Part the Third
December 16, 2011 Bad Science in Science Fiction
November 30, 2011 Last chance to help out with Movember!
November 29, 2011 Nobel controversy update
November 22, 2011 Ladies - Do your part for Movember
November 17, 2011 Allergies 101 - Part deux
November 16, 2011 Petition to Increase Funding for Scientific Research
November 15, 2011 Allergies 101
November 1, 2011 Movember
October 28, 2011 Resveratol and the dynamic nature of science
October 15, 2011 Petroplague - Book Review
October 13, 2011 That one looks delicious
October 12, 2011 Whatever you do, just do it for peace
October 6, 2011 A Bitter Sweet Nobel - Beutler, Janeway, and the Dawn of Innate Immunity
September 29, 2011 Scientists communicating their science
September 27, 2011 'How to Spot a Virus' - Free lecture tomorrow night in Boston
September 27, 2011 Nudists are infectious just like everyone else
September 22, 2011 Halleluja, Amen.
September 20, 2011 A reward well deserved
September 20, 2011 Attn Boston Beasties: Mind/Machine Interface Lecture this week
September 15, 2011 Extending life with red wine
September 13, 2011 Instructions for a retrovirus vaccine? Not really
September 1, 2011 Reflections on the past
September 1, 2011 Sleep clears the mind
August 24, 2011 Devastating east coast earthquake
August 24, 2011 More class warfare please
August 20, 2011 What passes for tragedy
August 10, 2011 The GoD of B-cells
August 9, 2011 What can climbers teach us about #elevatorgate?
July 29, 2011 Sexually transmitted allergies and other oddities
July 27, 2011 Allergic to Spunk
July 27, 2011 My own cognitive dissonance, unresolved
July 25, 2011 The Trouble with Magic Bullets
July 12, 2011 Heather at Sea
July 8, 2011 Meet the new white cell, same as the old white cell
July 5, 2011 Detour to the top of a mountain
July 5, 2011 Sterilizing everything is actually bad
June 21, 2011 Possible explanations for Tumor Vaccine study
June 18, 2011 Science publishers don't care about the public
June 17, 2011 Let's talk about sex (at dawn)
June 15, 2011 Science gets under my skin
June 14, 2011 Viruses, science and beer, Oh My!
June 9, 2011 Badass Bacteria vs Malaria
June 9, 2011 Oh, for the love of...
June 2, 2011 Extreme weather in Boston?
June 1, 2011 Bacterial ROS to the malaria rescue!
May 14, 2011 That probably won't happen tonight
May 11, 2011 Antibiotic resistance ignores boundaries - of species and countries
May 10, 2011 More on the science writing and the internet
May 9, 2011 Lemons from Lemonade: Recycling Reactive Oxygen Species
May 4, 2011 Science Journalism and Online Media
May 3, 2011 What a lovely compliment
May 2, 2011 SITN Spring Lecture Series
May 1, 2011 Activities report
April 21, 2011 Be more wrong
April 21, 2011 More on the microbiome
April 14, 2011 Why must you use that word, 'Profit?'
April 13, 2011 New Years Resolution: Data
April 13, 2011 This I believe
April 12, 2011 Science by the Pint... Tonight!
March 26, 2011 Tolerance isn't easy
March 22, 2011 Bacterial Burglary
March 20, 2011 Keep Funding Science
March 14, 2011 Lobbying Congress
March 11, 2011 The Power of Research (a game!)
March 9, 2011 Everything's contamin... oh to hell with it
March 7, 2011 Surf's up brah
February 28, 2011 The good, the bad, and the opportunistic
February 23, 2011 The best offense is a good defensin
February 11, 2011 And now to something I know nothing about: gender discrimination
February 10, 2011 New Lab Resolutions
February 10, 2011 There's no sex in your violence... or is there?
February 1, 2011 Well I never...
January 31, 2011 Science by the pint - get your science and drink it too
January 25, 2011 Is that a hypothalamus or are you just happy to see me?
January 25, 2011 Viruses throw wrenches in the gears of the immune system
January 23, 2011 Geek Manifesto - go help
January 20, 2011 Trial by Twitter
January 13, 2011 How 'Being Wrong' can be so right
January 11, 2011 Domesticated Phages
January 11, 2011 That guy must be crazy
January 10, 2011 Definitely politicize this tragedy
January 10, 2011 Speaking Truth in Violent Times
January 4, 2011 An so proceed ad infinitum
January 4, 2011 It's [expletive deleted]* Science!
January 4, 2011 Ticks of the atomic clock
January 2, 2011 The knock-out punch: Zinc Finger Nucleases
December 30, 2010 Essential cold-weather tips for idiots
December 29, 2010 Energy Scales
December 19, 2010 Spintronics and quantum circuits... huh?
December 16, 2010 Diversity Sucks
December 15, 2010 Free will, and why I'm better than you
December 15, 2010 More on Arsenic Bugs - Nature responds to the blogosphere
December 13, 2010 Science in Government Policy
December 12, 2010 Biological manufacturing
December 11, 2010 Scientific knowledge - getting closer to the right answer
December 8, 2010 What is knowledge?
December 2, 2010 Cholera is shitty
November 30, 2010 Using the immune system to fight cancer
November 29, 2010 Our Microbial Organ
November 28, 2010 Weekend Review: Sterile Inflammation
November 22, 2010 On Definitions: They Matter
November 20, 2010 Saturday Review: The Inflammasome!
November 17, 2010 Problem Solving Bacteria
November 16, 2010 Last SITN lecture: Tonight!
November 13, 2010 Saturday Review: Oral Vaccines
November 12, 2010 Weight loss and macrophages
November 11, 2010 Give a man's insides to a spud...
November 11, 2010 TAL on the economy
November 10, 2010 On Stress in Biomedical Research
November 9, 2010 It itches! The immune system turns up in the strangest places
November 8, 2010 Brief musical interlude
November 6, 2010 Saturday Review: Vaccines and the Immune System
November 6, 2010 What is epigenetics?
November 5, 2010 Free, all-digital textbook may be a revolution in more ways than one
November 5, 2010 The immune system has trade-offs
November 4, 2010 Implications of the immune response
November 3, 2010 DNA in the Cell - 'Ahhh! Kill it!'
November 3, 2010 Don't forget Boston: lecture on the microbes of the gut... TONIGHT!
November 3, 2010 Immune Response from Start to Finish: Part 3
November 2, 2010 Food is Not Medicine - Almond Edition
November 2, 2010 Immune Response from Start to Finish: Part 2
November 1, 2010 Immune Response from Start to Finish: Part 1
November 1, 2010 Rally to Restore... Something
November 1, 2010 Science in the News: Microbes of the Gut!
November 1, 2010 We, Beasties
October 18, 2010 Everything's contaminated redux (repost)
October 7, 2010 Walking bacteria - and some weighty researcher cajones (repost)
October 1, 2010 Why we will never defeat the microbes (repost)
September 14, 2010 Thanks for making my point, Nature
September 3, 2010 Bacterial Charity - The bad kind (repost)
August 19, 2010 I love video games (repost)
July 8, 2010 Everything's contaminated (repost)
June 30, 2010 Should Scientists Blog?
June 28, 2010 Unraveling gut immune system, one microbe at a time (repost)
June 23, 2010 Baby's First Bacteria (repost)
March 27, 2010 Why every 'OMG we've cured cancer!!' article is about melanoma