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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November 30, 2006
Dr. Joan Bushwell (not her real name) has hurled some poo at the -omicists. You know, those people who attach -omics to everything and act like they've come up with a brand new research discipline. I imagine them making the...
Posted by RPM at 12:30 PM • 6 Comments
Category: Anti-Science
Last week I linked to Carl Zimmer's take down of Casey Luskin. Notice how the text containing the link to Carl's post says "Casey Luskin". It's called a Google bomb -- we're trying to make Carl's post the number one...
Posted by RPM at 9:00 AM • 2 Comments
November 29, 2006
Category: Academia
If you're getting near finishing your PhD (within a couple of years or less), check out this article from PLoS Computational Biology. It offers ten suggestions to consider when searching for a post doc. The suggestions are not comp-bio specific,...
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A bunch of grad students at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) are organizing an online symposium in the Life Sciences. They've got a list of speakers and you can upload your own presentation. The conference runs from December...
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A couple of years ago, one of the rear tail lights went out on my car. I'm kinda handy with tools, so I figured it would be an easy fix. I poked around in the trunk area with my screw...
Posted by RPM at 9:00 AM • 3 Comments
November 28, 2006
Everyone's jumping on this meme, but I'm not gonna do it. Ooops . . . Looks like I just did it. Anyway, blogging's been light recently. Hopefully I can get my act together and have some posts up later this...
Posted by RPM at 4:00 PM • 0 Comments
November 24, 2006
Category: Anti-Science
Polish politician and creationist Maciej Giertych has received some attention for his correspondence published in Nature. But European creationists aren't limited to Poland, and they're more diverse than their American cousins.
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 7 Comments
November 23, 2006
Category: Genomics
On this Thanksgiving, let us give thanks for -omics. Without -omics, we wouldn't have a way to generate hype by using a simple naming technique.
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Category: Genomics • Molecular Evolution • Population Genetics
Nature has published five articles on structural polymorphism in the human genome. The implications of this research are discussed.
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November 22, 2006
Category: Anti-Science
The anti-science movement often suggests that teaching evolution will destroy the moral fabric of society. With that in mind, would you expect to find a disproportionate number of evolutionary biologists incarcerated in state and federal penitentiaries?
Posted by RPM at 2:00 PM • 5 Comments
Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger • Science
Everyone else is nominating E.O. Wilson for ScienceBlogs Science Laureate. Are there other options? Here's a (somewhat) novel nomination.
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Category: Blog Carnivals
The sixty seventh edition of the Tangled Bank has been posted at Newton's Binomium. It's a Thanksgiving edition, so go give thanks for some good science blogging....
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Category: Academia • Biology • In the Lab
Much of the lab work that goes on in the life sciences requires that the experimenter wear rubber gloves. The gloves protect you from your samples, and they protect your samples from you. So what does it say about someone's care for their research project when they run around their building with gloves on? What does it say about their care for the other people with whom they share that building?
Posted by RPM at 9:00 AM • 8 Comments
November 21, 2006
Category: Academia • Science • Science Policy
The new issue of Current Biology contains an interview with Drosophila geneticist Michael Ashburner. Here's a quote from the article: Scientists should realize that if they submit to journals -- like those published by Elsevier, Springer, Kluwer, Wiley and the...
Posted by RPM at 6:00 PM • 3 Comments
Category: Biology • Drosophila • Genetics
The Drosophila fruitless gene plays a role in sex-specific mate courtship. A new study shows that it also influence sex-specific fighting behavior.
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Two years ago today (November 21, 2004 at 11:23 AM) I launched evolgen in its original incarnation. The first post, entitled "First Post", celebrated the occasion: This is the first post to the evolgen blog. Not much to say other...
Posted by RPM at 11:23 AM • 7 Comments
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