New addition to the empire

Another mobile element has been slotted into the SciBorg matrix: everyone say hello to The Thoughtful Animal, a blog on animal cognition. So far, Needs More Squid, but it could be interesting.

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Welcome to the new home for The Thoughtful Animal! Welcome especially to new readers! To the old readers, I hope you'll enjoy the new place. Nothing big will change; but now I've got better technical support, a family of Sciblings (go check out their blogs!), a more powerful interface, and…
Welcome to the new home for The Thoughtful Animal! Welcome especially to new readers! To the old readers, I hope you'll enjoy the new place. Nothing big will change; but now I've got better technical support, a family of Sciblings (go check out their blogs!), a more powerful interface, and…
It's not a real proposal, but someone has come up with a provocative new genre, Squidpunk. Fiction that unlike New Weird, Steampunk, or Slipstream, is at its core not only about squid, but about the symbolism of squid as color-changing, highly-mobile, alien-looking, intelligent ocean-goers. As a…
...For a feature article in this week's Nature on how scientists go about developing and managing online personas. You can check out the article - for free - here. It's a good article, and you'll probably recognize some other familiar faces (e-faces? blog-faces?) in it as well. While the interview…

Ha-ha-hoo-hoo! He thinks...ha-ha!...he thinks...ha-ha, I'm gonna piss myself...he thinks he'll get "better technical support" here, ha-ha!

By Brownian, OM (not verified) on 12 Apr 2010 #permalink

Tech support? Bwahahahahahaha....

By Nerd of Redhead, OM (not verified) on 12 Apr 2010 #permalink

Looks like it will be interesting reading. I have gone and welcomed.

By Caine, Fleur du mal (not verified) on 12 Apr 2010 #permalink

I think we can expect to see at least occasional cephalopods, though there may be more primates.

By pnrjulius (not verified) on 12 Apr 2010 #permalink

Jason Goldman (The Thoughtful Animal) has already won me over. He'll make a good replacement for Ed (It's Not Exactly Rocket Science) who recently went over to the Dark Side.

By aratina cage (not verified) on 12 Apr 2010 #permalink

Brownian: *any* support is better than the non-support i had on my own over in my little wordpress universe. so far, i have nothing but good things to say.

PZ: I shall attempt to include some more cephalopods, just for you. Just wait for the harpy eagles to show up, though. They're nasty sonsabitches.

By Jason G. Goldman (not verified) on 12 Apr 2010 #permalink

...Needs More Squid...

Why not more cephalopods in general?

By jcmartz.myopenid.com (not verified) on 12 Apr 2010 #permalink

Do we need to know what the thoughts of cephalopods are? "Take...over...world...destroy...all...vertebrates...except...Overlord PZ..." :)

By Bladesman (not verified) on 12 Apr 2010 #permalink