AT THE CONVERGENCE OF EVOLUTION AND GENETICS
We talk about molecular population and evolutionary GENETICS and GENOMICS. You know, the caliper measurement of a gene's evolvability in moles.
Eschewing obfuscation ever since Morgan.
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May 31, 2006
Category: Biology • Conferences • Genomics • Molecular Biology • Molecular Evolution • Population Genetics
...or how a learned to stop worrying and love evo-devo. As my mind gets a chance to process some of the stuff I heard and talked about at the meeting I just returned from, I'll post some thoughts that will...
Posted by RPM at 8:15 AM • 5 Comments
May 30, 2006
Category: Admin
I should be working instead of dicking around on the ole' blog. But, give me a break, I just washed 600 vials. I needed a break. After letting the new ugly banner and stupid name hang around for a week,...
Posted by RPM at 4:00 PM • 1 Comments
Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger • Science Policy
Another week, another question from the Seeders. This week they ask us: Since they're funded by taxpayer dollars (through the NIH, NSF, and so on), should scientists have to justify their research agendas to the public, rather than just grant-making...
Posted by RPM at 1:45 PM • 0 Comments
May 29, 2006
Category: Admin
The meeting went pretty well (I may have more to say later once I've had time to digest everything). When I got to the airport on Sunday, I found out my flight was one hour late. I live in the...
Posted by RPM at 8:45 AM • 3 Comments
May 24, 2006
Category: Admin
If all has gone well, this post should appear as I'm on my way across the country to John Lynch's neck of the woods. The warmth of the desert should cause quite a shock to my system coming from the...
Posted by RPM at 9:00 AM • 1 Comments
May 23, 2006
Category: Admin
Given the inability of certain people to differentiate between evolgen and Evolution Blog, we're changing our name. This isn't like the last time we tried to rename ourselves. This is for real . . . and 4 eva. We are...
Posted by RPM at 8:45 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Speciation
Carl Zimmer has an article in the NYTimes Science section on how humans can interfere with diverging populations, increasing the frequency of hybrids and preventing speciation. He give two examples: three-spine sticklebacks in British Columbia, Canada and ground finches in...
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 2 Comments
Category: Admin • Pop Culture
While procrastinating (I should be analyzing data for a talk I'm giving on Friday), I stumbled upon this site (via EDSBS, not StumbleUpon). I tried to bypass registration (using BugMeNot), but none of the cheat passwords worked. If you want...
Posted by RPM at 7:30 AM • 0 Comments
May 20, 2006
Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger
This week, the SEED kings are asking us: "If you could shake the public and make them understand one scientific idea, what would it be?"...
Posted by RPM at 8:00 PM • 0 Comments
May 19, 2006
Category: Drosophila • Phylogenetics
As I mentioned previously, I'm busy preparing some data for a meeting next week. I don't have much time to devote to Phylogeny Friday, so I'll be sharing some of my own data with you. This data is nothing special;...
Posted by RPM at 4:00 PM • 0 Comments
Category: Molecular Biology
My advisor once told me that the best way to get your paper into a high profile journal like Science or Nature is to find the biggest of something, the smallest of something, or something that fucks funny. It turns...
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 2 Comments
May 18, 2006
Category: Science Policy
President Bush's FY2007 budget included no increase in funding for the NIH. Scientists have been lobbying Congress to amend the budget to at least increase the NIH budget to keep even with inflation. You can follow the story in these...
Posted by RPM at 6:45 PM • 2 Comments
Category: Pop Culture
Albinos The pigmentally challenged are up in arms over the Da Vinci Code. They say it's unfair that, once again, an albino portrays a villain on screen: Michael McGowan, an albino who heads the National Organization for Albinism and...
Posted by RPM at 11:50 AM • 6 Comments
May 17, 2006
Category: Science News • Speciation
John Hawks reads the papers so that I don't have to. Here is Hawks's reply to the human-chimp speciation paper I mentioned in the previous post. The basic conclusion that Hawks reaches: Don't believe the hype. The data analysis...
Posted by RPM at 6:58 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Speciation
Humans and chimps did not undergo a speciation event. Some pair of species (one an ancestor of humans, the other of chimps) speciated. It was thought that this event occurred approximately 6.5-7.4 million years ago, based on fossil evidence. A...
Posted by RPM at 2:25 PM • 7 Comments
PLoS Biology has an article with data that supports the hypothesis that open access articles receive more citations than articles hidden behind a toll (summary available here). The author compared open access and non-open access articles in PNAS, controlling for...
Posted by RPM at 10:55 AM • 3 Comments
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