Linkage

The National Institute on Aging has a new blog, go comment and tell them we want funding data!

Francis Collins was on Hardball discussing the sequester impact.

“Independent Scientist” Perlstein covered in Science, bit titled “Going Rogue”. Unfortunately.

Impact Factor Distortions editorial

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) is unimpressed with Impact Factor assessment of science.

Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine give $70 Million to USC. Scientists everywhere fantasize about finding their own celebrity backers…..

The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of writer’s block (h/t Namnezia)