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 January 24, 2012
I have malaria right now. I got it from the Malaria Clinical Trials Center at Seattle Biomed. I am participating in a clinical trial which is measuring change of the immune response in the liver for a person who gets malaria several times after never having had it before. I had never before had malaria [...]
Posted in clinical research, research | Tagged clinical trial, malaria
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 October 19, 2011
I went to see Joanne Silberner at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation tonight. Silberner is an elite American journalist who reported public health stories, most notably for NPR. The title of her talk was “Global health and the media: what’s news and what’s not, and why.” The audience were statisticians in public health [...]
Posted in education, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged computer, journalism, social media
By bluerasberry on October 14, 2011
I made this list on Wikipedia. It is awesome and in some form it is going to be read by millions of people and in its own small way it is going to have an impact on their lives. List of libraries in Seattle This was for Wikipedia loves Libraries!, an initiative to get people [...]
Posted in research, Wikipedia | Tagged library, website
By bluerasberry on October 11, 2011
I went to this conference called “Internet Research 12” where the focus was on people using the internet to pull data. One of the keynote speakers was Mike Minello with a marketing agency called Campfire. Wow! Advertising people are fun! I had never heard this guy’s name but I was familiar with a lot of [...]
Posted in computer, encounter, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged advertising, conference, hero
By bluerasberry on August 4, 2011
Dear X-person – I am sorry. I regret my actions and I learned from my mistakes. I wish that I had not upset you and I regret my behavior for that reason. Since I cannot change what has happened, I hope that you find consolation in the fact that I am making an effort to [...]
Posted in research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged mistake
By bluerasberry on July 30, 2011
In August I am going to a meet up organized by Wikipedia to get training to be a “campus ambassador. Wikipedia is starting to provide support for people to go out to the general public and encourage other people to use Wikipedia. This is markedly different from any other top website’s marketing strategy – here [...]
Posted in computer, research, Wikipedia | Tagged ad campaign, campus ambassador
By bluerasberry on June 5, 2011
Matt Mullenweg is the founding developer of WordPress and he still seems to be a frontman for whatever WordPress does. I was at an event he arranged on June 3. Matt looked like a typical America who, as Nandan would say, gave very little attention to his personal appearance other than hygiene. About 40 people [...]
Posted in computer, presentation, research, Seattle, work | Tagged hero
By bluerasberry on May 19, 2011
On Wednesday May 11 we hosted a conference about HIV vaccination in Varanasi. The below is a video from the event, but I have it set to start at a theater and music portion of the event as most of the presentation is in Hindi. I got a notice about an HIV vaccine conference funding [...]
Posted in HIV, presentation, research, work | Tagged vaccine