Twitter and tweets - you can't get through a day without hearing about someone, somewhere who found something interesting on the 140 character 'micro-blogging' site.
 Here's a round-up of what we stumbled across in the last 2 week. Be sure to check @mikesgene for links and thoughts related to social media, science media and how the life sciences can put it all to good use.
 

@BiologyAnswers What are mutagenic agents? http://bit.ly/cGSjIZ

@BitesizeBio Part 3 of Jode Plank's series on Writing your first (or next) paper is now up at BsB http://tinyurl.com/2ue7jms

@Comprendia   Science blogs aggregator from @davewiner (thx @maverickny) http://bit.ly/9oH9gJ 

@dgmacarthur Lessons for small labs from the UC Berkeley student genetic testing fiasco: http://bit.ly/9uFZRl  

@enniscath Hurrah!  Marco Marra of the BC Genome Sciences Centre awarded Order of British Columbia: http://j.mp/9AKrgb  

@ferrisjabr when a researcher respond to one's email within seconds, one experiences a singular kind of joy #nichefortunecookiesforsciencejournalists  

@hilaryspencer Projected cost of 4 yrs at a top-tier university in 2028 based on current trends: $525K(!) via nytimes op "academic bankruptcy"

@idtdna  Study Finds Diet and Alcohol Alter Epigenetics of Breast Cancer and Could Predict Severity of Disease http://ow.ly/2jXBI 

@jensmccabe Parkinson's, genetics, and immune system link? http://www.physorg.com/news201095413.html  #genoanthropology

@JoVEJournal : "the primary means by which scientists communicate with each other has remained frozen in time." http://fb.me/EaD9tOgy  

@phylogenomics Could make GMOs much harder to use: NYTimes: Judge Bars Genetically Modified Sugar Beets http://nyti.ms/aZrqNi

@PR4Science NY Times - science communications - specialized journalists a vanishing breed. opportunity for science PR? http://tinyurl.com/249x5bb 

@ralphmercer I think therefore I need coffee

And who are these stellar picks of the week?

@BiologyAnswers  Biology Questions and Answers is a website that explains the entire Biology through reviews made of questions and answers. http://www.biology-questions-and-answers.com/ 

@BitesizeBio Tweets from everyone at Bitesize Bio, the home of tasty brain food - articles, seminars, questions - for cell and molecular biologists http://www.bitesizebio.com/

@Comprendia   Mary Canady tweets for her company Comprendia a Biotechnology and Life Sciences Marketing and Business Development company in San Diego. More at http://comprendia.com/ 

@dgmacarthur   Daniel MacArthur work in human evolutionary genomics, and blog about the genetic testing industry from his home in Cambridge, U,K, http://scienceblogs.com/geneticfuture/

@enniscath  British-Canadian scientist, blogger, grant wrangler, godless lefty. Skis in winter, kayaks in summer. Likes English football & tea, and Canadian hockey & beer http://vwxynot.blogspot.com/ 

@ferrisjabr Science journalist. Dec '10: MA in Science Reporting from NYU. Interned w/ Scientific American MIND, Psych Today, NOVA, & Environ. Health News. Care to hire me? http://ferrisjabr.com/

@hilaryspencer   Hilary Spencer lives in New York and simply describes herself as curioser and curiouser

@idtdna   is the company account for Integrated DNA Technologies in Iowa

@jrnsmccabe CEO/Co-Founder: Contagion Health. Challenge me! www.imoveyou.com/jensmccabe  . Science/genetics geek. Stochastic. 

@JoVEJournal  PubMed Indexed Online Video Journal for Methods and Research in Biological Sciences  www.jove.com 

@phylogenomics Jonathan Eisen is an evolutionary biologist, microbiology & genomics researcher, open science advocate, and professor at UC Davis

@PR4Science Robyn Quinn is based in Saanich, B.C. where she toils away communicating science and technology takes mini wiener dog walks and who is very fond of golfing. Not well she says, but thats another profile

@ralphmercer  Social Media advocate and mentor. Developing a diploma program for CF NCM's and bringing SM tools to the Military