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It was such an interesting week at F1000 that I didn’t have space on Wednesday to mention a couple of tidbits of Faculty news. So here we go.

First, this poster on the DNA damage response from a group in Spain has a somewhat quirky design. I think the link to Star Wars comes from the “Wet side”/”Dry side” theme they have going on.

Harvard’s Laboratory of Personalized Medicine is listing posters that its researchers has presented at meetings. I guess this is the internet age equivalent of putting posters up in the corridor outside your lab after a meeting. A little reminder that you can check out the entire F1000 poster collection at the prototype site: because we’re getting so many submissions now the navigation has been improved, and our developers are beavering away on creating a search function as we speak.

My regulars might remember Steve Pogonowski, our erstwhile PR droid. Steve left us back in March: before that he wrote posts at blog.f1000.com (and I’ll recommend you remember that URL. More on that later) and such like. Before he returned to his native Australia, he toured the outer fringes of Europe, promising to send pics of him wearing one of our much sought-after T-shirts. Here he is outside Lenin’s tomb, flying the red flag:

I can’t imagine the Pogmeister getting up early in the morning for this stunt: I’m informed that the haze is smoke from forest fires.

This reminds me, actually, that I haven’t given away anything for a while. So… time for an off the cuff competition. Send me (or link to, or whatever) a picture of science being down in the weirdest of places. The strangest, or one that makes me giggle the most, gets a sweatshirt.

And with that, I think the clock on the wall says it’s a quarter to beer. Have a splendid weekend, all.