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  • When Psychologists Take Things Too Literally
    Thankfully, in brainstorming meetings where I'm asked to "think outside the box," no one has ever put me in an actual box. That's not true of the underg...
    1 hour ago from inkfish
  • Gerbillidae
    *Sundevall's jird *Meriones crassus*, from here.* *Belongs within:* Myomorpha. *Contains:* *Tatera*. The Gerbillidae are a primarily African radiation of ...
    14 hours ago from Variety of Life
  • Tikiguania Is Not From the Triassic
    *Hutchinson, M. H., Skinner, A., and M. S. Y. Lee. 2012. Tikiguania and the antiquity of squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes). Biology Online published b...
    16 hours ago from Chinleana
  • Sorry for lack of posts...
    We're busy finishing the Science/arseniclife paper, and the postdoc's uptake paper, and the RA's *E. coli *competence paper (submitted!), and an old visito...
    19 hours ago from RRResearch
  • Wildlife friendly lawns - Not!
    Yes, everyone needs money, but in general you don't see money buy such strange bed fellows as Scots Miracle-Gro and the National Wildlife Federation, so y...
    1 day ago from The Phytophactor
  • Growing on Trees in Acadia National Park
    My first volume of the journal *Bryologist* for 2012 has arrived. Thus, I am trying to finish up my reading of articles from 2011. The last one I had to re...
    1 day ago from Moss Plants and More
  • Link between political views and physiology
    [image: ResearchBlogging.org]It is becoming more and more clear that political views are in fact not completely decided by rational considerations, as comm...
    1 day ago from Pleiotropy
  • The Sheri Sangji accident: The experimental details
    Science has just published a summary of the report by California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health about the tragic accident involving Sheri San...
    2 days ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • What makes a molecule beautiful?
    I just finished a piece for the March issue of *Nature Chemistry* on what (in my mind) make a molecule beautiful. I will admit a preference for sparer, les...
    2 days ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • The science public information officer: it's complicated
    The glamorous life of a PIO. Via Wikimedia Commons.So, as many of my graduate school friends would begin a story, I used to be a public information officer...
    2 days ago from The Biology Files
  • The Hong Kong Outbreak
    When we think of Scarlet fever, we think of the Victorian era, of the Velveteen Rabbit and Little Women. Since the invention of antibiotics broke the back ...
    2 days ago from Memoirs of a Defective Brain
  • Embryonic stem cells: can we really restore vision to the blind?
    Restoring sight to the blind is, literally, a miracle. For centuries, men have told stories of miracles in which a blind person suddenly was able to see...
    2 days ago from Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
  • [image: Get your own Star Wars names from The Star Wars Name Generator!]My Star Wars name is Tol Rukbat A slave master from Exodo II (my students may say Im...
    2 days ago from Angry by Choice
  • How Drugs Work: Cold and Flu Medications
    Oh, it’s that time of year again. My morning commute is full of people coughing an astonishing array of germs in my general direction. Usually while also s...
    3 days ago from A is for Aspirin
  • Brachythecium salebrosum: Some Like It Temperate
    *Brachythecium salebrosum*, photographed in Slovakia by M. Lüth. *Brachythecium salebrosum* is a species of moss found in many temperate regions of the wo...
    3 days ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Certain strains put a strain on virus research
    *This is something I would like your input on: * *How important is strain choice in virus/microbiology research? * *Does it differ with certain aspect...
    4 days ago from Rule of 6ix
  • Religious people want religious leaders - of any religion
    A lot of people think that the Muslim world is just fundamentally different from the Christian world. That's the basis for the idea that we're facing a clas...
    6 days ago from Epiphenom
  • Deciphering the Layers of Earth
    “*This was the man to whom all things were known;** this was the king who knew the countries of the world. He was wise, he saw mysteries and knew secret thi...
    2 weeks ago from History of Geology
  • Sunset
    Proffesor Frédéric Pont at the University of Exeter has simulated what sunsets on planets orbiting distant stars would look like. What does the sunset loo...
    2 weeks ago from The Astronomist
  • PhD position available in Molecular Evolution!
    Having got my Estonian Science Foundation grant funded recently, I have an open PhD position available! See below. ----------------- We are seeking a hi...
    3 weeks ago from Protein Evolution and Other Musings
  • Do scientists pray?
    And a Happy New Year (via LettersOfNote)
    3 weeks ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Top tips this Christmas:
    It is the season to be jolly - full of festive spirit and cheer. However the reality of Christmas for me is eating way too much turkey and cake. Then I try...
    5 weeks ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • Free ImageJ Macro -- for citing images
    (of course all IJ macros and IJ itself are free...) So I got sick of constantly clicking away just to resize an image and add some citation text to the bot...
    5 weeks ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • The Origins of Inequality
    [image: ResearchBlogging.org] Inequality is a national conversation topic now, thanks largely to the efforts of Occupy Wall Street and the broader Occupy mo...
    2 months ago from PLEKTIX
  • With due respect sir, this does not make any sense
    An article in the Hindu titled, 'The way to get man back on his feet' has the following paragraphs in it: "It is the invisible forces of electromagnetic e...
    2 months ago from The Allotrope
  • More on DragonDictate
    DragonDictate continues to do a decent job of writing my email, so long as I don't talk about work. For writing papers, etc., it continues to be of limited...
    2 months ago from Games with Words
  • Girlybits 101, now with fewer scary parts!
    I was deeply considering a blog hiatus, dear readers, but sometimes you get hit with sledgehammers, and the only thing you can do to make sense of it all i...
    3 months ago from C6-H12-O6
  • Do Science Bloggers Exercise Free Will?
    That's the question--as I stare at the census data in search of a juicy trend--that would seem the most sensational and draw the most readers. A trend...t...
    3 months ago from Labs
  • The Large Picture Blog Has Moved
    Our New Home: TelescopeFeed
    4 months ago from The Large Picture Blog
  • Lab Rat Moving House
    Trying to keep both this and my new sciam blog going has been a bit of a strain. I've decided therefore that from now on all my science writing will be hos...
    4 months ago from Life of a Lab Rat
  • Goodbye FoS, thanks for all the laughs
    Moving house again… Well almost, moving addresses anyway. It wasn’t that long ago I moved from Disease of the Week to here at Disease Prone to take advanta...
    6 months ago from Disease Prone
  • Branson getting into microbial diversity in the deep sea
    Quick post here ... just read this article - Richard Branson launches Virgin Oceanic: deep-sea exploring submarines - Boing Boing which discusses how Katri...
    9 months ago from The Greenhouse
  • Funny advert placement
    I'm sorry to my more serious readers, but I just could not resist when I saw this. The ad placement next to a story about our work on sexual *versus*asexual...
    2 years ago from Sex, Genes & Evolution
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