The dangers of sitting, the closure of a key pathology institute, bias in NIH awards, switching to Android… just some items of interest this week in blog-land:

• An infografic on how sitting is killing you by Travis Saunders is up on the PLoS Blog, Obesity Panacea (via @laikas)
• An interesting NatureNews piece on the closure of AFIP which quotes MSKCC’s William Travis. What will happen to this collection of tissue samples?!?
• The British Library has a collection of archival and sound recordings online, including thousands which are openly available (as copyright permits). This collection even contains environmental recordings – neat!
• A piece published Thursday in Science reports findings that black applicants are significantly less likely to receive NIH funding than others. NatureNews and others weigh in and the NIH responds to the study – which they commissioned in 2008.
• ScienceBlogs (bought by National Geographic in April) has announced that it will no longer allow pseudonymous blogs… and the discussion of anonymity in science blogs and on social media continues in posts from DrugMonkey and Greg Laden and a report from Hank Campbell
• Krafty Librarian sums up her switch from iPhone to Android in this post

This week in the wide world of medical, science and librarianship blogs:

• On The Blog That Ate Manhattan, Peggy Polaneczky, MD calls for an expansion of the NIH’s Medicine in the Media Course to encourage responsible reporting on health issues.
• Alisha Miles is excited “Micromedex finally available in the Android Market“.
• There is a cool thread of beautiful and iconic science images on Quora. Vote for your favorite! (Via Bertalan Mesko of ScienceRoll, whose vote is for this.)
• An experimental treatment for leukemia and potentially other forms of cancer is generating a lot of buzz. Here is a piece from The Week and a nice post on it from Derek Lowe on In the Pipeline.

Here’s the latest from the blogosphere:

• Slate‘s Torie Bosch asks “Should the FDA regulate smartphone medical apps?”
• And speaking of medical apps, Brian Edwards discusses the “gamification of health care” trend he’s picked up on and how it’s helping to bring some fun to keeping yourself healthy
• A study by librarians at Texas A&M and Duke University looks at whether e-readers can be beneficial to medical personnel in clinical settings
• Scientific American blogger Katherine Harmon talks about the “4 Things Most People Get Wrong About Memory“, the subject of a newly published paper in PLoS ONE. There’s even an online quiz, but you may want to take it before you read the post.