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Web 2.0 Is Easy -- You'll See

Oct 06, 2008

The Small Worlds project is a new initiative organized by Alan Cann at the University of Leicester that aims to teach scientists to use Web 2.0 tools like Twitter, del.icio.us, and FriendFeed. These community-building tools can be "extremely useful ... for forming professional collaborations among groups and individuals," says this post at Bitesize Bio.

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PLOS Papers on Frozen Shoulder GWAS, Epstein-Barr Effects on Immune Cell Epigenetics, More

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