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Circus of the Spineless Numero 6
Category: Blog Carnivals
The sixth edition of the Circus of the Spineless is up at Science and Politics. Get your fix of inverts now......
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What Makes a Conference Good?
Category: Academia • Biology • Conferences
There's a fun article in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology on what distinguishes a good scientific meeting from a not so good one. The author advocates attending small meetings or workshops (under 100 people), which is tough for a young...
Posted by RPM at 7:13 AM • 2 Comments
February 27, 2006
Long Branch Attraction and the Branching Order of Deuterostomes
Category: Evolution • Molecular Evolution • Phylogenetics
You, me, your pet dog, and any other animal with a backbone are deuterostomes. So are sea stars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. During early development you, me, and echinoderms (sea stars et al) are a round ball of cells....
Posted by RPM at 10:07 PM • 1 Comments
Copy Number Polymorphism
Category: Evolution • Genetics • Genomics • Molecular Biology • Molecular Evolution • Population Genetics
I have a little bit of an infatuation with copy number polymorphism (CNP), which describes the fact that individuals within a population can differ from each other in gene content. Some genes, such as olfactory receptors (ORs), have many different...
Posted by RPM at 7:27 PM • 0 Comments
February 26, 2006
A Shout-Out to the New Peeps
Category: Admin
The Frink Tank has jumped the shark and joined the ScienceBlogs evil empire. If you like your science with a dash of humor (and dick jokes) check them out. Another blog, Stoat, has come on board. This one's new to...
Posted by RPM at 7:37 PM • 0 Comments
What to do with Your Negative Results
Category: Academia • Biology • Genetics • Science Policy • Statistics
My advisor received an email from a fairly prominent geneticist regarding some results published by Dobzhansky over fifty years ago. The geneticist had done some back of the envelope calculations and noticed some trends that had been overlooked for a...
Posted by RPM at 4:27 PM • 1 Comments
Commenting on evolgen
Category: Admin
When ScienceBlogs first started out, it was sending out some bad cookies. If you're having trouble commenting on evolgen, delete all of your ScienceBlogs cookies so that you can get the new ones....
Posted by RPM at 1:10 PM • 0 Comments
February 25, 2006
Evolution Wiki
Category: Evolution • Science Education
I have always been disappointed by the EvoWiki -- I found that I could get better information on evolutionary biology from the regular Wikipedia. Now some folks have organized the evolution content on Wikipedia into navigation templates. I have not...
Posted by RPM at 8:40 AM • 0 Comments
February 24, 2006
Now This is Intelligent Design
Category: Admin • Biology • Evolution • Molecular Biology • Molecular Evolution
My apologies for the utter lack of posting over the past week. I've got stuff sitting around waiting to be written about, and I just haven't been writing. I'm not going to make excuses; I just haven't been managing my...
Posted by RPM at 8:43 AM • 1 Comments
February 16, 2006
It Beats Pairs Figure Skating
Category: Sports
Apparently, you can fall down in figure skating and still win a silver medal. Imagine if this happened in a real sport. Say, for example, one of the Italian hockey players falls to the ice and a Canadian player scores...
Posted by RPM at 11:56 AM • 6 Comments
Asthma in the Office
Fans of the American version of The Office know that the show glorifies the intersection of I-81 and I-84, also known as Scranton, PA. They also know that Jim Halpert moonlights as the quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers, but that's...
Posted by RPM at 11:22 AM • 0 Comments
February 15, 2006
How to Walk into a Seminar Late
I was sitting in a small seminar today (about 20 people in a conference room) when someone walked in about 10 minutes late for the talk. This didn't bother the presenter, and I'm not even sure if everyone saw this...
Posted by RPM at 2:42 PM • 10 Comments
Tangled Bank #47
Category: Admin • Blog Carnivals
Tangled Bank #47 has been posted at Kete Were. Go get your science on....
Posted by RPM at 11:05 AM • 0 Comments
February 14, 2006
Life Science Blog Aggregator
Stew from Flags and Lollipops has begun a new life science blog aggregator, postgenomic. Here is how he describes it: Postgenomic aggregates posts from life science blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data. For example, it...
Posted by RPM at 8:48 PM • 3 Comments
February 13, 2006
Sexy Science Poetry
Category: Biology • Molecular Biology
Nick Anthis points us to the best satire of Valentine's Day: Valinetine's Day. The holiday is named after the amino acid valine, and is celebrated with nerdy, yet sexy, poetry. Nick offers up some examples of valinetine poems, such as...
Posted by RPM at 7:46 PM • 1 Comments
The Coalescent
Category: Evolution • Genetics • Population Genetics • Statistics
One of the most important developments in evolutionary biology in the past few decades has come without much fanfare outside of a small circle of population geneticists. The early models of population genetics were limited when it came to analyzing...
Posted by RPM at 7:08 PM • 3 Comments
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