About

 

Hi, this is Swivelchair. I’m anonymous for now, but I work in the biopharma area. Not a scientist, but interested observer. The posts are mostly PUBMED abstracts mostly on cognitive neuroscience. I try to make this jargon free and tend to oversimplify even if that sacrifices accuracy.

The biopharma industry, perhaps not surprisingly, is pretty dysfunctional. Now, I’m pro-drugs — if you need a drug, take it. I’m awed by research. But, management, well — as Carl Icahn reportedly said, “How did THIS guy get in charge?” So perhaps I focus on the negative, sort of like watching a train wreck (and so the “Disaster” series of illustrations..)

Blog mechanics: This is my first blog, and pardon the lack of polish — I’m smoothing things out as I go. I like antique scientific illustration, and put that in sometimes (all public domain, pre-1922, should be printable).Yes, this will be a multimedia empire as I just installed the video plug-in as video of rock and roll songs just about anything which tangentially applies to the blog posts are included.

Mumbo jumbo:  (Original mumbo jumbo replaced with an attribution license — copy, share, derivative works, just attribute to this blog — thanks much).

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Illustrations: I hereby waive all rights whatsoever in any artwork I may have made (to call it “art” may be charitable), and all work is dedicated to the public if it isn’t public domain already. The historical illustration posted is entirely pre-1922, I may have cleaned it up a bit, and although that shouldn’t rise to the level of creativity for any kind of rights whatsoever, any rights are hereby donated to the public. Most of the other images are pulled from Wikipedia or other public domain sources, with the links attached.

Writings/posts authored by Swivelchair: As far as the writing, feel free to copy or link, under a creative commons attribution license (click here to see — this is the one that says you can use the work however you want just attribute it to me, Swivelchair, preferably with a link, thanks much). The quoted abstracts are of course authored by third parties, and included because they are discussed, so readers can see the abstracts themselves. I don’t use database subscriptions for this personal project, so most of the time full papers aren’t attached, unless I can pull them off the web for free. This is annoying, as I don’t see why my tax dollars pay for the research and then I have to pay for the report? But I digress. There is a move toward public availability, and I vote yes on that one.

More to come, thanks for stopping by — I hope this is useful and entertaining –

Swivelchair

My e mail: swivelchair@neurologicalcorrelates.com

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