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Congratulations to 3rd year BCMB student Jarrett Smith on his selection to represent Hopkins at the 64th Lindau Meeting being held this summer in Germany! This prestigious meeting brings together Nobel Laureates and students to "Educate, Inspire, and Connect" the next generation of leading researchers.

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings The multi-stage selection process has just been finished: Approximately 600 aspiring young researchers representing almost 80 countries will be taking part in the 64th Lindau Meeting. So far, 37 Nobel Laureates have announced their participation. Read more...

Have you heard of PubChase? Not only does it recommend articles based on what you read, but it has editorials on science and publishing, and a forum where you can anonymously ask for career advice!

PubChase - discover, search and organize biomedical research of interest to you. PubChase is life science and medical literature recommendations engine. Search smarter, organize, and discover the articles most important to you.

From ASBMB Today: 10 New Year's Resolutions that Scientists are destined to break. Did you make any lab-related resolutions this year?

http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201401/OpenChannels/Resolutions/

Open Channels: 10 New Year’s resolutions scientists (probably) won’t keep Every year, people make New Year’s resolutions that they are sure to break by the time February rolls around. In fact, it’s been reported that fewer than 10 percent of New Year’s resolutions actually last. And every year scientists make resolutions that are more than likely to fail. Here is a list o...

The winner of AAAS's "Dance your PhD" contest was announced! Click the link to watch the winning video entry:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2013/11/dance-your-ph.d.-and-winner-%E2%80%A6

Dance Your Ph.D.: And the Winner Is … | Science/AAAS | News The votes are in, and the top prize for the 2013 “Dance Your Ph.D.” contest goes to … Cedric Tan, a biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who finished his Ph.D. there last year with a thesis titled “Sperm competition between brothers and female choice.” His dance interpretatio...

BCMB Rocks! http://wp.me/p2EM1u-j4

BCMB Rocks! Wow – we all know our BCMB graduates are outstanding scientists, but check this out: In the current issue of Science, two BCMB grads are first authors of RESEARCH ARTICLES! Clara Bien Peek worked with Peter Espenshade and is currently… [ 61 more words. ]

This is a great, quick read on communicating science to non-scientists.

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don't get caught: "He's the stupidest reporter ever!" Or is he? Social media strategies, media training, and speaker training, so you don't get caught unprepared or without a message. I'm Washington, DC-based communications consultant Denise Graveline. Want to pick my brain or get a sense of how I work? Do it here.