Seattle
sometimes I talk about Seattle
By bluerasberry on March 31, 2012
I was going to Suzzallo Library this afternoon when just outside the library a baby squirrel fell out of a tree! I did not know it was a squirrel at first, but then a crow swooped down and pecked at it. Immediately I saw a parent squirrel looking very worried coming down the tree, and [...]
Posted in animal, Seattle | Tagged rescue, rodent
By bluerasberry on March 25, 2012
Peggy Porter spoke representing the Consortium Biospecimen Resource (CRS), which is a biobank housed at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She said that the organization has good procedures in place to conduct informed consent, collect specimens, and manage the sharing of specimens to researchers, but in her organization and in the industry in general there [...]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, education, health, presentation, research, rights, Seattle | Tagged net generation, social media
By bluerasberry on March 24, 2012
John T. Slattery is a member of the Department of Bioethics & Humanities at the University of Washington and of the Washington Phenotyped Biospecimen Resource. He was one of the speakers at that Friday 23 March communication conference. He spoke about a need to increase the information available to and usable by people receiving healthcare [...]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, education, Seattle | Tagged bioethics, conference, free as in freedom, John Slattery, open source
By bluerasberry on March 24, 2012
Yesterday Friday 23 March there was an informal meetup for people interested in ethics, biobanking, and modern media in Seattle. It was by invitation. I think most people who attended knew many of the other people in the room, and what I took away from the meeting was that we all share a common problem [...]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, health, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged biotech, conference
By bluerasberry on March 12, 2012
On three of us members of the HIV Vaccine Research Unit Community Advisory Board made a video to inform potential new members about what it would mean for them to join our group. The video was to have two purposes – to introduce HIV vaccine research and to introduce the concept of layman meeting in [...]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, drug, education, non-profit, research, rights, Seattle | Tagged HIV vaccine, videography
By bluerasberry on February 16, 2012
On Monday 13 February Sharon Terry of Genetic Alliance was in Seattle and gave a talk at the Public Health Cafe. The Public Health Cafe is a community science presenation organized by the UW Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Science. I love it! I had seen Sharon’s YouTube video explaining why she got into the [...]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, education, health, non-profit, Open access, presentation, research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged Genetic Alliance, Jon Izant, Public Health Cafe, Sage Bionetworks, Sharon Terry
By bluerasberry on February 8, 2012
I talked with Jami Mathewson from the Wikimedia Foundation on 13 December about the campus ambassador program. We talked a bit since then, and then on 6 February we had a long talk and I agreed to be the regional contact for campus ambassadors, professors, or anyone else who wanted to join Wikipedia’s Campus Ambassador [...]
Posted in Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged campus ambassador
By bluerasberry on December 31, 2011
Brian Glanz is one of the organizers of Open Science Federation. The OSF is a nonprofit organization which has the goal of making science information more accessible, and historically it has done that by connecting scientists with online technology. There is a core team involved including Brian which has been together since 1999, and they [...]
Posted in non-profit, Open access, rights, Seattle | Tagged NWABR, Open Science Federation
By bluerasberry on November 30, 2011
I am all about biobanks now. A biobank is a type of biorepository which stores human biological specimens long-term for future research. I have been having encounters with biobanks for years and always had questions about them, and I have even had some conflicts with researchers on this topic. Recently I met someone who develops [...]
Posted in biobanks, non-profit, research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged NWABR, publishing, social media
By bluerasberry on November 13, 2011
The HVTN conference was from November 7-9. I was there every day. It was cool and I learned stuff but of course the point of a conference is meeting people and making plans together. There was a meetup in the conference which was only for people who are involved in community education, so no scientists. [...]
Posted in HIV, presentation, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, HVTN