Field of Science Blogs...

  • Hormone replacement therapy is beneficial and safe, it turns out
    A new study that just appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association has some good news for women who take estrogen replacement therapy. ...
    1 week ago from Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
    For a long time there's been a kind of Cold War with a slow moving front between philosophers and scientists, especially physicists. The scientists accu...
    2 weeks ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Fine-tuning is not a problem
    Fine-tuning of the universe is not a cogent objection. It gets causality wrong. The idea of a set of knobs that God tunes to get it just right for life t...
    3 months ago from Pleiotropy
  • Kicking Off a New Semester
    It seems like yesterday I was knee deep in determining final grades, but Wednesday I am back in the thick of it. Luckily, my teaching is much less in t...
    4 months ago from Angry by Choice
  • Friday Fabulous Flower - Bottle brush buckeye
    Not too many plants blossom in the middle of summer. But the bottle brush buckeye is reliable shade tolerating plant. Not only that but once establish...
    10 months ago from The Phytophactor
  • The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site
    I'm moving house. Over the past few years, Blogger has become somewhat less user-friendly behind the scenes. Nothing major, and certainly nothing I'm going...
    1 year ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site
    I'm moving house. Over the past few years, Blogger has become somewhat less user-friendly behind the scenes. Nothing major, and certainly nothing I'm going...
    1 year ago from Variety of Life
  • The first extragalactic black hole
    In the world of black hole researchers, there is a group led by *Tomer Shenar* that, so far, has mostly demonstrated the non-existence of black holes prev...
    1 year ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Does mathematics carry human biases?
    This week, a conversation flared up on Twitter on whether mathematics can carry human biases, and what such a possibility could even mean. The spark was...
    3 years ago from PLEKTIX
  • The Alvarez and the Crater of Doom
    *"It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws." * *"The Colou...
    3 years ago from History of Geology
  • Thinking about a post-pandemic world
    I've been trying to think carefully about what our world will be like once the current pandemic is over. Most people are rightly focused on the current si...
    3 years ago from RRResearch
  • Easter fires: Rainbow demonstration rises again
    It the the custom in many Christian denominations to light a Pascal fire at their Easter rites. For Catholics, this is done after sunset on Saturday night...
    5 years ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • A New Placodont from the Late Triassic of China
    *Wang, W., Li, C., Scheyer, T. M., and Zhao, L. 2019. A new species of Cyamodus (Placodontia, Sauropterygia) from the early Late Triassic of south-west C...
    5 years ago from Chinleana
  • Bryophyte Herbarium Survey
    Are you #Herbarium Staff? We recently began a multi-year research study examining how bryophyte specimens are stored and organized at scientific institutio...
    6 years ago from Moss Plants and More
  • WE MOVED!
    *DEAREST READERS, * *THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. WE WILL BE DEPARTING FROM THE FIELD OF SCIENCE NETWORK. * *FIND US AT OUR NEW BLOGGI...
    7 years ago from Games with Words
  • Update: Tree of Eukaryotes (parasitology edition)
    There arose a need for a new tree for a parasitology meeting, so after almost five years, I finally updated the tree of eukaryotes. There are still things ...
    9 years ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • Growing the kidney: re-blogged from Science Bitez
    Hi guys, I've set-up a new science/education blog called* Science Bitez *so I'll be blogging from there from now on! Here's my first Science Bitez post: On ...
    9 years ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • 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...
    12 years ago from Disease Prone
Show All