Below are the most recent 11 friends' journal entries.

Monday, December 7th, 2009
_scientists_ [ miriamboon ]	4:36p	basic software for handling data Hey guys. I'm racking my brain, trying to think if I've missed any software that scientists use for basic data analysis. Can anyone suggest anything that should be added to this list? Matlab Mathematica Maple Excel (yes, really) Thanks in advance! Edited to add: Which ones do you think are the most widely used? If it is something that is used in every day life (like Excel), it's even more interesting to me. Current Mood: busy (44 Comments |Comment on this)
lj_maintenance [ mhwest ]	1:15p	Notification System Hey Guys, Unfortunately with our last release, and its instability, we were forced to roll back releases. Unfortunately in doing so, it would seem that our notification system has been broken somehow. Our engineers are working on this issue as quickly as possible. We hope to have a patch within the next day, so we can deploy our code and fix the notification system at the same time. Please *bear* with us ;) Currently all notifications are being queued up so they can be processed as soon as the fix is pushed and verified to be working correctly. Thank you, Current Mood: grumpy (183 Comments |Comment on this)
_scientists_ [ zeleny_slon ]	5:02p	Guys! Please help me with this article. igor dot zlot at gmail Thanks in Advance!!! (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
_scientists_ [ spread_truth ]	7:40p	(56 Comments |Comment on this)
_scientists_ [ ignis ]	9:47a	Herr Professor has his latest manuscript reviews back, and he's not thrilled with the editorial decision. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRBWLpYCPY (6 Comments |Comment on this)
camsluts [ scary_mary ]	10:32a	Probably my last post for the year! :D ( i'm on top of the bill! ) BTW: I just made a little sales list, I'd love if you all took a gander. scary-mary.livejournal.com/273822.html (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
lj_maintenance [ mhwest ]	12:18p	MogileFS Maintenance **EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 ** Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love... Hey LJers, I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;) Thanks, Current Mood: dirty Current Music: Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (131 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 30th, 2009
_scientists_ [ toodlepipsky ]	10:22a	Ornithology paper request Hello all! Jstore and google scholar don't like me (or my university, who's to know) so I need these three papers for a seminary I need to give on adoption in birds. The papers are: * The evolution of alloparental care and adoption in mammals and birds. by ML Riedman - The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1982 * Selection for adoption versus infanticide by replacement mates in birds. by S Rohwer - Current ornithology, 1986. * Testing the intergenerational conflict hypothesis: factors affecting adoptions in Audouin's gulls, Larus audouinii. by Daniel Oro and Meritxell Genovart 1999 Many great thanks to the very nice person who will send me these or one of them to MeyRevived(at)hotmail(dot)com. Thanks again! Current Mood: busy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
_scientists_ [ evultreefrog ]	1:39p	I have asked a few of my friends, and no one seems to have access to pre-1995 subscriptions for Soil Biology and Biochemistry. So, if anyone can get the article, then I would be greatly appreciative! Boerner, R.E. and S. D. Koslowsky. 1989. Microsite variations in soil chemistry and nitrogen mineralization in a beech-maple forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 21(6)795-801 Link is here My email is kwixted0 at gmail.com Thank you x million! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 27th, 2009
_scientists_ [ cheesenoonions ]	12:49p	Pub request. Happy holidays everyone. Hopefully everyone is getting some rest and catching up with their reading. If anyone has access to this, please email it to roperez22 at gmail. Thanks. Phylogenetics, evolution, and medical importance of polyomaviruses Infection, Genetics and Evolution, Volume 9, Issue 5, September 2009, Pages 784-799 Andi Krumbholz, Olaf R.P. Bininda-Emonds, Peter Wutzler, Roland Zell (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
_scientists_ [ savestheworld ]	10:31a	sig dig question If I'm following strict significant figures rules and add 9.0 and 3.0, is the answer 12 or 12.0? I can't find any examples online where the addition causes the number to increase a digit. Do I drop the zero so I don't end with a third significant figure or is it okay because it's no more precise than 9.0 or 3.0? (22 Comments |Comment on this)