Storify to shut down May 16, 2018 - no new accounts as of today

Well, crap

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Richard Harris (@rrichardh) talk at #UCDavis Oct '17: Common errors that bedevil medical research

Made a Storify: 

Wakelets summarizing Tweets about "An open digital global south meeting" at #UCDavis

I made a Storify of Tweets and some pictures from the "An open digital Global South" meeting that I am a co-organizer of. This was organized by my "ICIS project and was, to be honest, really put together by other people on the project (I helped, but definitely was not one of the major organizers). Much of the credit should go to Michael Wolfe and Alexandra Lippman. See more in the Storify below. UPDATE March 14, 2019 - replaced Storify w/ Wakelet.

These are actual living microbiologists #actuallivingscientist

Crossposting this - which I already posted at microBEnet I have been tracking #actuallivingscientist postings on Twitter compiled those by people doing microbiology. Actual living microbiologists.

Time for #DegreeMadness - where we rank people's statements by what degrees they have not by science

UPDATE 1/1/2018 Replacing the Storify with Wakelet since Storify is going away. I transferred my Storify collection to Wakelet using their import tool. Testing the embed a few different ways.

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Storify roundup of links & pics about evolution, microbes, open science, etc

So I just don't have time to do a compilation of links with extra detail about them like some people do regarding interesting information and stories they have seen over the last week or so. Instead I am trying to compile such information via Twitter posts of mine and then converting the more relevnt ones into a Storify. So here is one such storification for the last month or so.

Tweets from Nancy Moran's talk at #UCDavis on "Two sides of symbiosis" storified

I went to a talk yesterday by Nancy Moran at UC Davis.  Nancy is one of my science heroes.  I have worked on a few projects with her and am just a big fan of her body of work on symbioses.  I have written about her work her on this blog many times before including

• Holy lateral transfer batman; amazing story on fungal to aphid transfer from Nancy Moran
• Sharpshooters, dual symbioses and new ways to sequence a genome
• Why endosymbionts rule - see #PLoS Genetics paper on origin of an alternative genetic code
• Aphid-bacterial symbiosis in more detail, and in the New York Times
• You could call it symbiomics (but please do not)... but whatever name you use, this is $^@#&* so cool.
• World's Smallest Genome of a Cellular Organism?
• Glassy winged sharpshooter symbionts

Anyway - I live tweeted her talk and then tried to "Storify" those tweets but Storify was not working well.  Thankfully  Surya Saha made a storify which I then edited (with his permission).

@phylogenomics's tweets re Nancy Moran's talk at #UCDavis storified bit.ly/111dHgj #symbiosis CC @symbionticism
— Surya Saha (@SahaSurya) June 6, 2013

The storify is embedded below:

Summary of responses to question about metrics for density in phylogenetic trees

I posted a question to Twitter and Facebook about metrics for assessing density in a phylogenetic tree. Here is a "Storification" of the responses. Thanks for the help all.
Any other suggestions welcome in comments ...