A belated welcome to a new ScienceBlogger

I'm a day late on this, but welcome ERV (a.k.a. endogenous retrovirus) to the Collective. A graduate student studying the molecular biology and evolution of HIV, her joining the Collective was forced to be earlier than she had intended because of an unfortunate incident resulting in the temporary removal of her old blog by Google. However her entrance into the Seed mothership, we're glad she's here now...

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We're not supposed to pick favorites among our patients, but I have one. We'll call her Brenda.
Yesterday, after reading all your comments on my last post, and contemplating the sheer inanity of having so little evening time to myself (and my work and the housework...), I decided that we would try a new course with Minnow.
Everyone says "encourage your daughters to stick with math and science". And you want to do it. You're proud of your daughter, you want her to have every option in the world open to her. But what do you do when she resists?

Welcome, ERV !
Better late than never, oh wise and portentous box of glowing lights !

I kinda saw this coming when I heard ERV had been taken down.
Perhaps one day I too will write a blog, and it too will be of such quality that the scum will shout for it's removal from the internet. But, until then, I will be content with reading some of my favorites here.