Life Science
January 13, 2010
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Fly Me to the Moon: The Incredible Migratory Journey of the Arctic Tern This bird racks up a lot of frequent flier miles each year!
A Blog Around The Clock
Snake-mimicking Moth [copyright Miroslav Midanovic]...
Discovering Biology in a Digital World
Citizen Science and Digital Biology: ScienceOnline 2010 Is there a place for citizen scientists in the world of digital biology?
Laelaps
The deeper the snow, the better the hunting I heard, but did not see, wolves when I visited Yellowstone National Park this past summer, but the Nature film team had better luck during a winter in the same park. The above clip is a portion of the...
Oscillator
A Darwin Electro-Opera There have been a lot of great Darwin themed things popping up in the past few months in celebration of the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, but none as avant garde and awesome as "Tomorrow, in a...
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Renovating a runt - the extreme evolution of the Y chromosome The human and chimp Y chromosomes are incredibly different. Despite their small size they have been hotbeds of evolution in the last 6 million years, picking up differences that other chromosomes would take 130 million years to do.
Oscillator
The Game of Life in 3D I just saw this neat blog post about Conway's Game of Life projected into three dimensions. You can download the script and play around with it yourself!...
Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify Can you identify this sweet little bird, captured in mid-stride?
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Including Disability in Diversity Discussions #scio10 As part of recent discussion on diversity, related to Anne Jefferson's panel at ScienceOnline, Dr. Isis had the following discussion with a reader in the comments section. clamboy writes: At first I wanted to extend very snide thanks to Dr....
Laelaps
Laelaps is in OpenLab '09! For the third consecutive year I was surprised to find that one of my posts made it into the annual science blogging anthology The Open Laboratory. Not only was the number of submissions very high (760!), but my essays were...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 42 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
Laelaps
Photo of the Day #822: Atlantic ghost crab An Atlantic ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata), photographed at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware....
Gene Expression
How Columbus was not a seer A week ago I pointed out that in some visualizations of world wide population variation South Asians & mestizos seem to overlap which each other to a great extent. The reason for this is that both populations can be modeled...
The Questionable Authority
Picture of the Day - 13 January 2010 When lava flows through forested areas, you sometimes find holes like this: Tree Mold Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park 4 November 2006 1/180 @f/6.7; Pentax *ist DS; zoom lens at 18mm When the lava hits trees, it begins to cool...
January 12, 2010
The Questionable Authority
How do we know that most of the species that ever lived are extinct? It's been a long time since I've responded to an Uncommon Descent post, and I'm starting to remember why. There's one that went up over there the other day on the fossil record that's really almost mind numbing -...
Oscillator
Solar Powered Leaves That Crawl I am kind of obsessed with symbiosis and the idea that cooperation between different species can be a driver of evolutionary change. I learned about these symbiotic green sea slugs a while back from a colleague whose mom is a...
Genetic Future
Illumina announces new arrival in the sequencing arms race Genomics technology giant Illumina has announced a new weapon in the furious DNA sequencing arms race: a platform capable of sequencing two complete human genomes in a single, week-long run. How excited should we be?
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Creating Diversity in STEM - The Final Chapter for #scio10 I was really interested to see the answers given in response to my questions: 1) What is the value, if any, to increasing the diversity of our community? 2)What is the first question you would ask of / first statement...
EvolutionBlog
Scott Wins NAS Public Welfare Medal A well-deserved honor: The National Academy of Sciences Council has selected Eugenie C. Scott to receive its most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal. Established in 1914, the medal is presented annually to honor extraordinary use of science for the...
Pharyngula
Cool videos for zoologists Sven DeMilo posted a link to this here, but it's worth promoting up top: a nice compilation of instructive and entertaining videos for zoologists....
bioephemera
Pokemon + Phylogeny = Phylomon Attention all art/science web-collaborative types! Dave Ng has just formally announced the Phylomon Project. Here's the hook: a paper published in 2000 determined that an 8 year old could identify and characterize 120 different Pokemon characters, but when it comes...
The Primate Diaries
The Primate Diaries Was Selected for The Open Laboratory The Open Laboratory?! You're kidding? Woo hoo!!!!!!!!My post for Nature Network, Male Chauvinist Chimps or the Meat Market of Public Opinion? has been selected for this year's Open Laboratory as an example of the year's best online science writing. For...
A Blog Around The Clock
Spider This one is big: [Copyright Miroslav Midanovic]...
Laelaps
Did the "Marsupial Lion" Climb Trees? Restoration of the skull of Thylacoleo. From The Ancient Life History of the Earth. Thylacoleo was one strange mammal. A close relative of living koalas, kangaroos, and wombats, the largest species of Thylacoleo were lion-sized carnivores that stalked the...
Framing Science
Richard Gallagher Steps Down as Editor of The Scientist The founding editor leaves one of the top outlets for reporting on research, economics, politics, and public engagement in the life sciences...
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