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The carnival bug has bitten the postdocs. The first edition is slated to appear at Propter Doc's on the 27th/28th of January, so get posting!

Where does the time go? The deadline is rapidly approaching for the next issue of Bio::blogs at Fourth Floor Studio, so send in those entries, people! Remember, it can be any recent blog post related to bioinformatics, not necessarily a special post. Feel free to nominate others' posts, too!

First reminder gang: Bio::Blogs #5 is due to land at Fourth Floor Studio in two weeks' time. Plan those submissions, and send to bioblogs at gmail dot com, or cotsapas at gmail dot com. Submissions preferably by 5pm 31st Oct (ESDT) - that's coffee time 1st 11th in Australia, and coffee time 31st 10th in Europe.

Alf has a paper in the NAR web-server special issue, descibing HubMed. He also has a new job. Well done Alf!

via HubLog

A list of the top 50 science blogs is on Nature's news site, as part of an article by Declan Butler highlighting the best science writing. We didn't get to interview, but we are proudly there at #46...

Well done, Greg!

Some time ago, I mentioned that wet/dry earwax is genetic. The same group appears to have now isolated the channel responsible. A SNP (rs17822931 in ABCC11), the causative allele of which is found primarily in East Asians, alters the ability to export cGMP through this channel. Neat!

Over in the forums, Stew has announced his (beta) version of postgenomic.com, a technorati-like meta aggregator for the life sciences. Looks very cool.

One answer may be because they are very highly cited by other authors. But why are they cited by other authors?

Via CiteUlike

Surfing to Nature's blog domain gives a RedHat Enterprise Aapche default page. Linux is more common than we thought...

As a slightly delayed announcement, I'd just like to mention that I have finally handed in my thesis, entitled "The genetics of variation in gene expression". I have been on holiday for the last three weeks or so, and I'm now feeling human again after a period of social dysfunction and catatonia that I am informed is par for the course. Fortunately, I'm still waiting for my visa so I can work here with this group for the next X years.