GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist and her five parrots are currently relocating to Germany, where she will continue writing her blog while also writing a book and learning German. (Meanwhile, her parrots will continue to nibble on her extensive personal library.) If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, you can help pay her living expenses by hiring her to "blog" your conference, speak at your club or write articles for your publication (or by clicking on the Paypal button below). If you read an essay on this blog that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for inclusion in 
I just wanted to welcome my new SiBlings to ScienceBlogs -- there are 43 of us now! Some of the truly amazing additions to our stable of superstars include some of my favorites, The Loom, Effect Measure, and Scientific Activist. Hopefully, my regular readers will wander over to say hello to them (but please wander back, of course. I don't want to be forgotten in all the excitement). We also have a new front page that was launched today at noon (EST) that you should check out. It was designed in response to reader feedback (well, and some feedback from us, too).
I also wanted to let you all know that I am experiencing some rather serious internet connectivity problems, so even though I am writing essays for you, it is questionable as to when they will appear. I have located several possible wireless sources, but again, who knows how long these things will be available to me, a mere piggybacker? Perhaps one day, I will manage to pay for my own wireless, but at this time and for the foreseeable future, that is an economic impossibility for me.
