Scientific dog tricks, a social media user rebellion, a huge pharma settlement and third party free twitter archiving…all coming your way in this week’s blog buzz!

Over at microbe.net Jonathan Eisen introduces us to Cliff, the beagle trained to smell Clostridium difficile in hospitals! There is also a fascinating (and adorable) video of Cliff at work.

There was quite a to-do this week following a Facebook-style change in Instagram’s user agreement which opponents argued allowed the company to sell user photos without paying or notifying them.  The uproar from angry users was followed by some speedy back pedaling by Instagram.  

 The NY Times reported that Amgen has agreed to pay $762 Million for marketing an anemia drug for uses not approved by the FDA.

For all you micro-bloggers out there interested in archiving your tweets, Twitter has announced that you can now download all of your tweets and retweets from the beginning.