Almost 600 people or organizations follow us on Twitter and we in turn keep track of just over 100 similar Twitter accounts.
The range we manage to cover in those we follow or those who track our 140 character posts is chosen to help spread awareness of who Genome Alberta is and what we do and includes:

• PR Professionals
• Science writers
• Mainstream media
• Biotech consultants
• Local event companies or people
• Corporate Twitter accounts for biotech or life science companies

Most of our Twitter connections are in Canada and the U.S. but we also have a good overseas following in the U.K. and Australia. Every 2 weeks we like to share some of the hi-lites we've come across on Twitter. The links have been checked to make sure you're not going into the land of spam and we like to feature the relevant, in some cases the irreverent, the interesting, and some that are there, well, just because.
Be sure to visit them, follow them and tell them @mikesgene sent you:

@AdeleMcAlear  MIT Tech Review: Infographic showing worldwide broadband penetration, % of population vs. speed. http://bit.ly/aKfwU9
@BiologyAnswers  What are lethal genes? http://bit.ly/cRx0h0
@carlzimmer Listening to the podcast roundups of #evol2010 meeting posted at Evolution, Development, and Genomics blog
@drkiki  It's Thursday! That means it's science time on TWIT... Dr. Kiki's Science Hour is celebrating its first birthday... http://fb.me/zMLS8JJT
@GenomeBiology New article in #genomebiology from Hans Ellegren and colleagues, a study of molecular evolution in two bird genomes http://bit.ly/9mZu4m
@enniscath  What's the only thing worse than a grant deadline? http://j.mp/cOpQ0G #NatNet
@esciencenews 'Copy-and-paste DNA' more common than previously thought http://bit.ly/aaf0nm
@genomicslawyer  CA Legislature proposes bill to halt Berkeley's proposal to offer students DNA testing: http://bit.ly/affAgE
@idtdna  DNA Tower http://ow.ly/25ZjF 20-foot glass sculpture on the campus of IUPUI
@jaffathecake  Ohh, British Medical Association has voted to remove NHS funding for homeopathy & for it to be removed from pharmacies. Go science!
@lindaavey Wishin'...and hopin'...that the 23andMe blog (Spittoon) posts an article about the longevity discoveries. I wanna know
@phylogenomics  At least evolutionary biologists know what is important: big crowd watching #ESP vs #POR #evol2010 #ievobio http://twitpic.com/211kx8
@ralphmercer  the future of privacy and social networking? http://www.technologyreview.com/web/25640/?a=f
@sciencebase  Ironic and timely given my last tweet - new interactive Periodic Table of the Elements iPhone app - http://j.mp/br32HR
@StemCellNetwork  SCN announces new Global Research program competition for Canadian PIs http://ow.ly/24Rkb
@tgoetz I discuss Sergey story & future of science with @jetjocko on new Wired Storyboard podcast: http://bit.ly/cQVqNl
@wyattsgirl  10 years later...few clinical impacts- HGP lacks the clinical relevance http://bit.ly/aDcsUJ despite what Sanger says: http://bit.ly/9WB0Ll

 Behind this week's featured tweets are:

• @AdeleMcAlear   Adele McAlear is based in Montreal and helps people understand the digital world. She is an early social media adopter, speaker and consultant who can also be found at http://www.adelemcalear.com/

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

• @carlzimmer   Carl Zimmer is a science writer who says he is a “champion of mind-controlling tapeworms, walking whales, and underappreciated forms of life everywhere”. Find out more about him at http://carlzimmer.com/

• @drkiki   Dr. Kirsten Sanford is a scientist in neurophysiology who somehow escaped from the lab and is now making her way in independent science media and journalism

• @enniscath  Cath Ennis is a British-Canadian scientist, blogger, and grant wrangler based in Vancouver.  She skis in winter, kayaks in summer, likes English football & tea, and Canadian hockey & beer so she can’t be al bad.

• @esciencenews   Science News are 140 character tweets updated by artificial intelligence that scans all major sources around the web

• @GenomeBiology    Genome Biology publishes articles from the full spectrum of biology. Their first conference, Beyond the Genome is in October 2010. Find more at www.beyondthegenome2010.com

• @genomicslawyer  Dan Vorhaus  brings news and notes from the frontier of genomics, personalized medicine and the law. He has a very popular blog at http://www.genomicslawreport.com/

• @idtdna  Integrated DNA Tech is based in Coralville, Iowa and the compay website is at http://www.idtdna.com/

• @jaffathecake  Jake Archibald is a web developer at the BBC.

• @lindaavey is featured regularly on our Twitter hi-lites. She follows @mikesgene on Twitter, is a co-founder of 23andMe and says she is “Instigating a healthquake”.

• @phylogenomics  is another Twitter Snips regular. Jonathan Eisen is an evolutionary biologist, microbiology & genomics researcher, open science advocate, and professor at UC Davis.

• @ralphmercer Ralph Mercer is based in Kingston and is a social Media advocate and mentor. He is also the Project leader to design the New Library of the Future for the Air Force. He writes a blog about his work at http://digitalchief.wordpress.com/

• @sciencebase  David Bradley is a  Science Writer in Cambridge, UK. He says he loves family, conversation, guitar, photography, singing, walking, and cycling. And of course science. He has a well read blog at http://sciencebase.com/

• @StemCellNetwork  The SCN supports projects that translate Canadian stem cell research discoveries into new and better treatments. Learn more about this Canadian initiative at http://www.stemcellnetwork.ca/

• @tgoetz  Thomas Goetz is Executive Editor at Wired and has recently released a new book called The Decision Tree - a manifesto on healthcare & personalized medicine. The book’s website is at http://thedecisiontree.com/blog/

• @wyattsgirl is Kenna Shaw who still wants to be a scientist but toils for the NIH in the U.S.