A ‘Nobel’ cause and a giant lobster: here’s this week’s Twitter round up

This week, @F1000 was buzzing with the news of this year's Nobel prize winners, and we're honored to be congratulating two F1000 Faculty Members who were among the awardees. Elsewhere on the Twitternet, it seems we weren't the only ones who had caught the 'Nobel' bug...

By Claire Scott
12 October 2012

John Gurdon, 2012 Nobel prize-winning Faculty Member, reveals that he was advised not to pursue science as a career: ow.ly/ele35

— Faculty of 1000 (@F1000) October 9, 2012

Prosperous without phosphorus: modifying their metabolism enables plants to outcompete weeds for phosphorus. ow.ly/e2uqr

— Faculty of 1000 (@F1000) October 5, 2012

To honor our 2012 Nobel laureates, John Gurdon and Brian Kobilka, we’ve made their evaluations free to read: ow.ly/en38a Enjoy!

— Faculty of 1000 (@F1000) October 10, 2012

And elsewhere on the Twitternet:

HHMI stopped supporting Chemistry Nobelist Brian Kobilka in 2003, and his lab nearly went bust. nature.com/news/2011/1108… hhmi.com/research/inves…

— Ewen Callaway (@ewencallaway) October 10, 2012

No result is worthless: the value of negative results in science – BioMed Central blog tinyurl.com/9swuhzf #JNRBM

— JNRBM (@JNRBM) October 10, 2012

Want the high res version of our Photo of the Week? It’s all yours right here teacheratsea.noaa.gov/media/photo_of… twitter.com/TeacherAtSea/s…

— NOAA Teacher at Sea (@TeacherAtSea) October 10, 2012