If you were an allergy researcher ...

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Um-- well.


"Delighted" might be overstating things just slightly.   

  "Intrigued and excited" though-- that much I buy.   

This is a fun thread for me.

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Tweeted by @helenbevan

"Inside the mind of the workplace radical"
http://linkis.com/adigaskell.org/2014/viFkq

To innovate often requires the individual to stand alone, often against quite significant foes, in order to get their ideas and thoughts out there.  It's a tough job, especially as so many of our organizations are set up with efficiency in mind, so the status quo is very much what they're looking to protect.

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Tweeted by @99u

"Corporations Aren't Recruiting Enough Weirdos"
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-09/the-case-for-recruiting-weirdos

We need to expand our definition of diversity to include the weird—a group often maligned and avoided. These are people who appear to us as different, strange, and even offbeat; they just don't fit in.

There is potency and innovativeness in certain kinds of weirdness that can help businesses thrive.

Being a bit weird myself, I like this one.   

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"Blaming moms: How miscommunication on epigenetics is a threat to women's health"

http://healthjournalism.org/blog/2014/09/blaming-moms-how-miscommunication-on-epigenetics-is-a-threat-to-womens-health/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

We're back to blaming mothers in health research—or so it would seem.

...history teaches us that sometimes when we talk about the pathology of mothers, we aren't actually talking about mothers at all. As we learned all-too-well in the 1940s, concerns about the behaviors of mothers are sometimes shaped, not by the actions of actual mothers, but by fatherly concerns that women aren't acting "as they should."

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Tweeted by @HopkinsMedicine

"Innovation: The Power of Play"
http://perspectives.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2014/06/innovation-the-power-of-play/

My mind was free to play, and I was able to solve a complex problem much more effectively. I suspect that a similar mindset leads to innovations at many levels

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If I was an allergy researcher with an unlimited budget and unlimited time I would research pregnant women, their eating habits, family medical histories, and their environments. I would aim to have a very large pool to sample from ~20,000 or so, and I would look for correlations in the women who gave birth to babies with food allergies.

Right now, I am so stuck on WHY and HOW. I have one kid with absolutely no food allergies and another one with a bunch of them. Why and how are they so freaking different? I cannot help but feel that environment and diet have somehow caused the allergies in the first place. I'm sure there is a genetic component as well, but that is completely lacking in my case, as far as I know, and I hate the idea that things are just random. 

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Right now, I am so stuck on WHY and HOW. I have one kid with absolutely no food allergies and another one with a bunch of them. Why and how are they so freaking different? I cannot help but feel that environment and diet have somehow caused the allergies in the first place. I'm sure there is a genetic component as well, but that is completely lacking in my case, as far as I know, and I hate the idea that things are just random. 

When was your dd diagnosed?  I think sometimes we go through stages with FA ... anger can be part of that ... searching for "why" is pretty common also.   



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"Mommy Guilt, Or How I Caused My Child's Allergies"
http://foodallergybitch.blogspot.com/2012/07/mommy-guilt-or-how-i-caused-my-childs.html

I love the "what causes allergies" game. I really do. I've played it for years, read all the research, listened to every crackpot theory and the not-so-crackpot ones.

I love it because I hate what I have to face if I stop playing. I hate that my kid may have to go through life with these allergies and there's nothing I can do.

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Tweeted by @subatomicdoc

"Scientific Misconduct Should Be a Crime
It's as bad as fraud or theft, only potentially more dangerous."

http://tinyurl.com/katmjbb

Research misconduct degrades trust in science and causes real-world harm.

Those who commit research misconduct cannot be trusted. It's too easy to be tempted into ignoring or destroying data that undermines your work.

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Tweeted by @DrLeanaWen

"Breast Cancer Patients Seek More Control Over Research Agenda"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/16/341729271/when-patients-set-sciences-research-agenda-who-loses

The backdrop for this new patient-driven paradigm for treating disease is a quiet crisis in funding for biomedical research. Scientists studying diseases are fighting over a steadily shrinking pool of money for research. But for breast cancer, Visco believes, the problem isn't a shortage of funding — it's how it's being spent.

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Tweeted by @99u

"What Happens When Crowdsourcing Stops Being Polite And Starts Getting Real"
GREAT THINGS HAVE COME FROM QUIRKY AND ITS COMMUNITY OF INVENTORS. BUT THEIR BIGGEST PROJECT, AROS, STRAINED EVERYONE.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3035159/165-ways/the-crowd-can-be-harnessed-up-to-a-point

They want to be a part of something like Quirky. "The hardest part about the business we run is getting people to trust us with their ideas. It's their identity, it's who they are," he says. And it's Quirky's identity as well. It's why a company like GE was interested in the first place, even if, this time, it didn't need all those other voices.

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Tweeted by @SusannahFox

"Flash mob meets tumor board"
http://ronizeiger.com/flash-mob-meets-tumor-board/

I summarized the current system: researchers invent new drugs, experts give lectures about them, front line clinicians prescribe them to their patients, who do (or don't) take them in the context of their families and communities.

The question we brainstormed: how might we reconfigure these actors if there were no rules, no laws.

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Tweeted by @helenbevan

"The Many Cultures of Innovation"
http://linkis.com/www.wired.com/2014/0/srHIW

The secret here is not to reject the extremes as immediately unworkable. Rather, you use them as a jumping off point for the most remarkable thought process ... what if such a thing were possible?

you need a diverse, multiform meeting-place of cultures, where people have quite different backgrounds, biases and conceptual starting-points in life and work

shared core values which both foster and support innovation. You need a culture that moves fast

Sounds like FAS to me 

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Tweeted by @DrVes

"The top 50 science stars of Twitter"
http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2014/09/top-50-science-stars-twitter?utm_content=bufferd46e4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Geneticist Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California (17th place; 44,800 followers), who boasts more than 150,000 citations, says he once thought the social media platform was only for "silly stuff" like celebrity news.

"It actually may be the most valuable time [I spend] in terms of learning things that are going on in the world of science and medicine," says Topol

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Tweeted by @6s_EQ

"The Most Beautiful Word in the English Language"
http://www.6seconds.org/2010/07/19/the-most-beautiful-word-in-the-english-language/

Humility is all about maintaining our pride about who we are, about our achievements, about our worth — but without arrogance — it is the antithesis of hubris, that excessive, arrogant pride which often leads to the derailment of some corporate heroes, as it does with the downfall of the tragic hero in Greek drama. It's about a quiet confidence without the need for a meretricious selling of our wares. It's about being content to let others discover the layers of our talents without having to boast about them. It's a lack of arrogance, not a lack of aggressiveness in the pursuit of achievement.

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Tweeted by @helenbevan

The What If Method
http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/monapatel98499/motivate-design-presents-the-what-if-method?next_slideshow=1