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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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Press Releases are Written by Stupid People

PLoS Biology's press releases have taken another step toward being dismissed as "crap" by people who know jack shit about evolution, thanks to a new press release published last week.

Posted on April 9, 2008 10:00 AM • 11 Comments

Sleep, Sex, and Drosophila

Are you less likely to bump uglies when you haven't gotten enough shut-eye?

Posted on March 18, 2008 3:00 PM • 1 Comments

How Easy is it to Write About Junk DNA?

A bunch of haters getting it all wrong.

Posted on January 16, 2008 9:00 AM • 13 Comments

Science on the Opinion Pages

The New York Times' editorial section does a terrible job covering science.

Posted on January 10, 2008 2:00 PM • 1 Comments

Why Accelerated Adaptive Evolution isn't Faster Evolution

The population genetics of neutral mutations and beneficial mutations.

Posted on December 21, 2007 6:15 PM • 6 Comments

Genetics Links

A cool search tool and some good genetics blogging.

Posted on December 5, 2007 12:00 PM • 0 Comments

Sequencing, Mapping, and Chips!

These terms get new definitions, thanks to sloppy press offices.

Posted on November 27, 2007 8:00 AM • 0 Comments

Scientific Communication

How scientists should deal with science reporters and on the difference between Open Access and Free Access.

Posted on October 16, 2007 4:00 PM • 3 Comments

Why don't most people understand simple statistics?

And how does it affect the coverage of science in the mainstream media?

Posted on October 7, 2007 2:30 PM • 10 Comments

Multicellular Eukaryotic Genomes are Teh Suck

The human genome is one big, bloated motherfucker. It's almost all non-protein-coding DNA. The same is true for many other eukaryotic genomes. Sure, some of it has a function. But a whole lot of it is just junk.

Posted on September 26, 2007 2:00 PM • 2 Comments

Genomic Phylostratigraphy

Trends in Genetics will be publishing an odd article in November.

Posted on September 1, 2007 8:00 AM • 4 Comments

I'M IN UR GENOME, ADAPTING UR HOST-SYMBIONT RELATIONSHIP

An entire endosymbiont genome was inserted into its host's genome.

Posted on August 31, 2007 12:00 PM • 2 Comments

Junk on Cancer

If you don't have lung cancer, be thankful for your junk DNA.

Posted on August 23, 2007 1:30 PM • 1 Comments

Language Log is Stealing My Business

Two genetics posts from the linguists.

Posted on July 22, 2007 5:15 PM • 5 Comments

What is a Gene?

The New York Times publishes what may very well be the worst science article ever.

Posted on July 1, 2007 10:00 AM • 10 Comments

New York Times Cracks

The mixed and muddled metaphors about DNA sequencing and James Watson.

Posted on June 3, 2007 9:30 AM • 7 Comments

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