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Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify Newly-hatched baby birds of this mystery bird species have a remarkable ability, can you tell me what that is?
Big News in Tiny Physics A couple of significant news items from the world of particle physics: There was a conference on neutrino physics recently, and the big news from there is that two experiments measure something funny with neutrino oscillations, namely that the oscillations...
IGERT meeting: what do grown-up interdisciplinary scientists do for a living? One of the most interesting sessions at the NSF IGERT 2010 Project Meeting was a panel of men and women who participated in the IGERT program as students and are now working in a variety of different careers. The point...
Of Venom and Silk Spider biologist Norman Platnick, from the American Museum of Natural History, has traveled the world cataloguing some of these creatures, many for the first time ever. World renowned for his work, he hopes to find as many as species as possible before some disappear.
Toward a New Economics: Supply, Demand and Curiosity If, as a society, the only research we are willing to support is defined by today's problems, our future will be limited to the horizon of our current understanding. If we only invest in solving our most urgent issues -- cancer, global warming, defense, etc. -- we will lose everything still unknown that we MIGHT discover.
If scientists want to educate the public...but is that the right question to begin with? Yesterday, Chris Mooney published an article in Washington Post, If scientists want to educate the public, they should start by listening. It has already received many comments on the site, as well as on Chris' blog posts here and here....
UC postdocs get a little help from CongressCritters The University of California has been negotiating with a postdoctoral union over many issues of compensation. Unsurprisingly one of their favorite tactics when dealing with student / transient employee concerns is to delay. The postdocs have an interesting set of...
The Differential Impacts of Sexist Gender Role Expectations Every once in awhile I do manage to get out to a social sort of event. Recently I was at one such thing. And overhead the following
I want to…DANCE! But I can't. I am quite possibly the worst dancer in our galaxy (notice the nod to my self-esteem: I can acknowledge that there might be an entity worse at dancing somewhere in the universe). But still, this announcement...
Rule #9284748 of Science *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*
The Mechanical Universe on the Intertubes I was meandering across the 'nets for images to use in a presentation, and I happened to notice that Caltech's venerable introductory physics series, The Mechanical Universe, is now available for the viewing, in an actually usable format. The last...
Another reason poster sessions are the most productive part of the meeting You get to fence with the reviewers of your manuscript or grant application. Do you ever get into conversations at your poster that sound hauntingly familiar? Someone is challenging you to explain something about your approach, or data, or interpretation...
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Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify Today's Mystery Bird seems a bit confused about its own identity, maybe you can help by identifying its species? (and maybe you know what I am referring to when I write this? If so, please do share!)
Evolution in Action by AMNH This video tells the story of speciation in Central Africa's roiling, rapid Lower Congo River. This river is home to an extraordinary assortment of fish -- many truly bizarre. This new video by Science Bulletins, the American Museum of Natural History's current-science video program, features Museum scientists on a quest to understand why so many species have evolved here. Follow Curator of Ichthyology Melanie Stiassny and her team as they search the Lower Congo Rivers mysterious depths for an evolutionary driver.
K99/R00 Discussion Forum Another internet resource for those newish to the grant game has appeared (some time ago, I seem to have forgotten about it until now). The discussion forum was originally focused on K99/R00 issues but there are many good things here...
Things Are Getting Better All The Time... Really, they are. Read this to see just how much better!
A simple way to get the antiscience crowd to come around? Mooney has the right message, but gets it wrong from there.
Birdbooker Report 124 Books, books, beautiful books! This is a list of biology, ecology, environment, natural history and animal books that are (or will soon be) available to occupy your bookshelves (or your library's bookshelves) and your thoughts.
Mystery Bird: Green Wood-Hoopoe, Phoeniculus purpureus A gorgeous African species to identify, can you do it? This mystery bird species has a remarkable breeding strategy, can you tell me what it is?
A quick CSR video on basic grantsmithing tips All they are missing is actually calling them StockCritiques™...
Mystery Bird: Village Indigobird, Vidua chalybeata This Old World genus of birds is filled with species that have a very close relationship with another species of bird -- can you tell me the nature of that relationship and tell me which species this bird is associated with?
I got interviewed... ....by my SciBling, Jason Goldman at The Thoughtful Animal blog. But this time, it is very little about blogging or Open Access publishing or science journalism, except at the very end. This interview is more about my experience in the...
Corrupting the youth at freshman orientation. Hey kid, wanna major in philosophy? (Be sure to clear your browser history so your mom doesn't find out.)
Not Getting the Point on "The Third Reviewer" What is your hypothesis as to why the history of comment on published papers is so dismal?
“I LOVE it when my students show up with forms and tell me where to sign, or when they give me several weeks' notice for recommendation letters, with nice neat lists of addresses and deadlines. I wish they would bug me more often about stuff, as I tend to forget what I've agreed to do and let things get buried in my inbox.” Asphericity on Ask Dr. Isis - Can I Be Bossy With My Boss?
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Some engineers use cranes and steel to make their designs reality, but synthetic biologists engineer using tools on a different scale: DNA and the other molecular components of living cells. Synthetic biology uses cellular systems and structures to produce artificial models based on natural order. Read these posts from the ScienceBlogs archives for more:
Pharyngula May 30, 2007
The Loom January 31, 2008
Discovering Biology in a Digital World July 2, 2006