Mini social media icons - feel free to use

A while back I realised I wanted some small icons to use on our chi+med pages - we have a big list of upcoming and previous conferences and I thought people might be interested in knowing what the official Twitter account might be, or the hashtag was. More fun (for me!) to annotate these with colourful pictures so that's what I've made. I've recently started collecting some of the hashtagged tweets via Storify and the ones I've done so far are here.

Some of the icons were created from scratch or from a cropped screenshot of the native logo (in its place, on the relevant page) and then miniaturised for our pages. I did this by copying and pasting the screenshot into Paint (PC), removed extraneous material and then pasted the cropped image into Powerpoint where I resized it, then right-click, save as image (.png files). They scale perfectly well on mobile devices although if really enlarged they don't look particularly good, but they serve my purposes well.


I'm not sure of the copyright for these - clearly I don't own any of the images other than the hashtag and document ('proceedings') ones which were created from scratch. So I hope you don't get into trouble if you use the other ones, in much the same way I hope I don't either ;)

The link for each is given individually below and this is the zipped file of all of them.

1 Twitter
2 Hashtag
3 Storify
4 Facebook
5 LinkedIn
6 Google+
7 Document icon
8 Envelope / mailing list icon

How to grab the RSS feed from a Blogger tag

How to get an update whenever a new post on Blogger is tagged with a keyword of interest

Blogger calls tags on posts 'labels' for some reason, though it doesn't appear to have cottoned on for the need for categories as well (or I've not found out how to do that).

The labels for this post are howto (as in 'how to' do something), RSS and tags and can be seen below.

If you were interested in getting an RSS feed that would let you keep an eye only on the posts on this blog that included 'how to' instructions for something, the link you'd want would be:

http://brodiesnotes.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/howto

Generic version http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/labelname
- put the relevant blog name in the bit in bold and change the labelname bit to the tag / label of your choice.

You can add this feed URL to any RSS reader that you use (for automatic updating purposes) or just bookmark it and view it periodically in a web browser (no use for automatic updating of course but it still gives you the information).


This useful tip came from a Google search resulting in
http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=53336

Places in London that do talks and events that I like going along to

Checked and updated August 2016

My own hand-picked list of places in London.

Interesting talks in London: Individually listed talks

Science and culture

• Barts Pathology Museum: Events
• Blackheath Scientific Society: programme
• Chelsea Physic Garden: Walks, talks and workshops and Calendar format
• Geological Society: London Lectures 2016   
• Gresham College: Lectures and events
• Hampstead Scientific Society: programme
• Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution: What's On
• Kew Gardens (the KMIS lectures are a treat): What's On
• Linnean Society: Meetings and events
• Natural History Museum: Events calendar
• Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garrett: Events
• Old Royal Naval College: Events
• RI - Royal Institution: What's On
• Richmond Scientific Society: programme
• Royal Astronomical Society: Public lectures 
• Royal Geographical Society w IBG: What's On and London lectures and Events calendar
• Royal Museums Greenwich (National Maritime / Royal Observatory): Events
• Royal Observatory Greenwich: Events and Planetarium
• Royal Society of Chemistry: Conferences and events and Lectures 
• RS - Royal Society: Events
• Wellcome Trust (Wellcome Collection): All events
• Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London: Eponymous Lectures

Music, film and arts culture

• Barbican: Event calendar
• BFI: What's On (inc IMAX and London Film Festival info) and BFI Southbank listings
• Blackheath Halls: Events
• Cafe Oto: programme
• Cinema Museum: Events
• Horse Hospital: Events
• ICA: What's On films | Events
• In The Dark Radio - A celebration of stories told through sound
• Last Tuesday Society: Listings and lectures
• Regent Street Cinema: Programme
• Royal Academy of Arts: Exhibitions & Events 
• Royal Academy of Music: Events
• Royal Albert Hall: What's On
• Roundhouse: What's On
• RSA - Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce: Events
• Shakespeare's Globe: What's On  
• Society of Antiquaries of London: Events
• Somerset House: Events
• Southbank Centre: What's On
• V&A - Victoria and Albert Museum: What's On
• Wilton's Music Hall: What's On

How to grab the search results URL from NCBI PubMed

For those familiar with PubMed
It's the 'See more...' link below the rectangular box on the right, once you've done a search - click that and then select the 'URL' button that appears below the box on the new page.

New readers start here
When you run a very basic search on PubMed (eg literally just typing aspartame insulin) the URL of the page changes from

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed to 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=aspartame+insulin

If you then add a filter (look on the left hand side for the 'species' filter) so that you're only looking at results of studies done in humans then the URL returns to

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

which is a bit disheartening if you want to email it to someone and say 'hey look what I found'.

There is a way round that but I think that, in most cases (within reason), the URL of the page should reflect what the page is doing (except where you've had to log in of course). Mind you if I'd been in charge of this from the start we'd have never had frames.

First catch your URL 
Have a look at the right hand side of the page (you might have to scroll down a bit) for the 'Search details' box where you can see how PubMed has converted your typed in search words into a properly built search. Below the box (on the right) is a 'See more...' link - click it.

You're now on the 'Search details' page, there's another box and below it are two buttons one of which says 'URL' - click that and you'll be taken to a page of search results. At the top of the page, where the web address / URL is (ie the address bar) is a plain text version of the URL which has spaces in it and doesn't look that URL-y. However once you click on it and copy it, and paste it anywhere else it should automatically fill in the spaces and even if it doesn't, when pasted into a browser it will work as a web address and take you to a copy of those search results.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%28%28%22aspartame%22[MeSH%20Terms]%20OR%20%22aspartame%22[All%20Fields]%29%20AND%20%28%22insulin%22[MeSH%20Terms]%20OR%20%22insulin%22[All%20Fields]%29%29%20AND%20%22humans%22[MeSH%20Terms]&cmd=DetailsSearch