By bluerasberry on 2012-03-24
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 2012-03-12
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 2012-02-16
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 2012-01-24
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 2011-11-30
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 2011-10-19
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 2011-10-14
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 2011-10-11
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 2011-08-04
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 2011-07-30
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