Free scientific resources / inspirational material.

• John Perry on structured procrastination – If you are like me, reading this will make you see nirvana
• Neurotree – The Neuroscience Academic Family Tree
• NIH VideoCasting Podcasts – A terrific collection of hundreds of talks, released publicly on the web as podcasts/videocasts.
• On Doing Science: A Speech by Antonio Coutinho – An interesting (and sadly rare) view on the value individuality in science
• Python in Biodiversity Informatics – Software – A collection of python softwares for biologists
• SciVee | Make Your Research Known Through Videos, Pubcasts and Postercasts – An experiment from the creators of PLoS. It’s a collection of talks and posters freely available to everyone. Worth browsing.
• TED: Ideas worth spreading – You do get quite some inspiring talks here.
• The Science Network – A wonderful collection of talks and other materials. The Science Network (TSN) is a non-profit, web-based organization concerned with science and its impact on society.
• The Word Hacker – There’s much more in being a hacker than breaking into computers.
• UCSD Guestbook: Sydney Brenner talks about his scientific life – Definetely worth watching. SB is usually not just mindblowing but funny, too.
• You and Your Research – Richard Hamming’s seminal talk. Highly suggested reading.

Labs from good friends or from people I admire (or both).

• Carlos Ribeiro’s Lab – Feeding behavior in flies.
• Dan Ariely’s Lab – Predictably Irrational Guy
• David Balduzzi – Mathematics in the morning, Consciousness in the evening, politics and drinks at nights
• Don Knuth’s Home Page – Computer Programming is an Art and Donald Ervin Knuth is an artist
• Frank Schnorrer’s Lab – Muscle development anyone?
• Johnny Chung Lee – Human Computer Interaction Research – I love any approach for taking Science to everyone. Johnny Lee is great in doing that.
• Luis von Ahn’s Home Page – Human Computation
• Mattias Alenius’ lab – Development of the olfactory system
• Michele Boldrin – Make sure you read the part on Intellectual Monopoly
• Paul Lutus – Being this guy is what I dream of, I think.
• RealClimate – RealClimate is a blog edited by some of the most respected climatologist studying climate change. It was created to contrast the non-sense negationism that is typical of media but not existing at the scientific level. higly reccomendded.
• Takashi Suzuki’s Lab – good old axon guidance

Drosophila resources.

• Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank – Antibodies against Drosophila antigens (and not only)
• E-RNAi Webservice – A web service to design and/or evaluate dsRNA constructs suitable for RNAi experiments in invertebrate Drosophila and C. elegans
• FlyBase Homepage – The name says it all.
• FlyTree – The Academic Genealogy of Drosophila Genetics
• How to dissect Drosophila Brains – Series of movies to learn how to carry out Drosophila brain dissection. Realised by Kei Ito.
• P[acman] Resources – BAC transgenesis for your gene of choice
• Stock Deletions Batch Search – Drosophila Stock Deficiencies Search
• The Interactive Fly – A cyberspace guide to Drosophila development and metazoan evolution

Not strictly scientific links.

• All In The Mind – A rather popular podcast on the brain-mind matter. Very professional yet accessible by anyone.
• JujubesBroth.it – My wife’s cooking blog (and she is a great scientist too)
• my profile at Last.fm – My profile on last.fm (did I mention that last.fm rules?)
• noiseFromAmeriKa – nFA is a blog run by some top notch academic economists in the US, who also happened to be Italian. It is about economics, politics and more. On the spare time I give my small contribution too. The blog has an English section.