Open Book - Pt. 1

Earlier this year I wrote about publishers who want to hide public research information behind paywalls. Well I walk my talk. On October 20th, I personally delivered a speech to the Open Science Summit 2012. You can see my full presentation here (at 47:40.00). You can also view the video portion of my presentation on Youtube.

I have a little more to say about open publishing coming up in my next post as soon as I find where the top of my head landed...
(those who follow my tweets might already know what's coming)

Dope O' Mine

Something very interesting popped up in my searchbot results the other day. Most of us know dopamine as a neurotransmitter, the lack of which is the reason for the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease. Dopamine also exerts a potent immunoregulatory effect. Two new studies provide a new look at dopamine, and suggest that immune cells can create and secrete their own dopamine which can then interact with the immune cells' own dopamine receptors to influence those same cells' behavior.