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  • Higher Education, the GOP doesn't have much use for it
    TPP has read several articles that say the majority of GnOPe voters do not think higher education is a good value or a worthwhile undertaking. No wonder h...
    2 days ago from The Phytophactor
  • Cognitive biases in drug discovery, part 2: Anchoring, availability and representativeness
    In the last post, I talked about how cognitive biases would be especially prevalent in drug discovery and development because of the complex, information-...
    1 week ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Nikola Tesla's Earthquake Machine
    Engineer Nikola Tesla is today famous for his work on electricity and energy. The alternating current electrical system, on which our modern civilization ...
    1 week ago from History of Geology
  • CRISPR gene editing controversy - does it cause unexpected mutations?
    Just over a month ago, a short paper appeared in *Nature Methods* saying that the gene editing technique known as CRISPR-Cas9 has a big problem: it create...
    1 week ago from Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • Sweepers
    It's time to meet the sweepers. *Smallscale bullseyes *Pempheris compressa*, copyright John Turnbull.* Sweepers, Pempheridae, are a group of moderately siz...
    1 week ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Asilidae
    Leptogaster cylindrica*, copyright Fritz Geller-Grimm.* *Belongs within:* Asiloidea. *Contains:* Dioctriinae, Stenopogoninae, Laphriinae, Dasypogoninae, A...
    2 weeks ago from Variety of Life
  • Wigner's theorem
    The *Wigner’s theorem* was formulated and demonstrated for the first time by *Eugene Paul Wigner* on *Gruppentheorie und ihre Anwendung auf die Quantenmech...
    3 weeks ago from Doc Madhattan
  • #dayofscience
    Sikhote-Alin meteorite from Vatican Observatory's collection On July 13th, the Earth Science Women’s Network is hosting Science-A-Thon, in which participat...
    3 weeks ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • Does expression of the toxA operon depend on ToxT as well as ToxA?
    *Short answer: Yes, but not in the way we expected.* First, here's a diagram showing the *toxTA* operon and the mutants we're examining: The grey bars s...
    1 month ago from RRResearch
  • And with that I'll take both good and bad questions...
    When scientists give talks/seminars/colloquia/presentations/speeches/lectures/lessons/defenses/instructions, questions are welcomed, and (probably to give ...
    3 months ago from Pleiotropy
  • Why I'm Marching for Science
    Saturday April 22nd 2017 is Earth Day. It is also the day chosen for the March for Science. I was thinking about traveling to Washington DC to march, but ...
    3 months ago from Angry by Choice
  • You can win the Electoral College with 22% of the vote
    Donald Trump is poised to become the next US president, despite the fact that Hillary Clinton received over a million more votes than him (and counting). T...
    8 months ago from PLEKTIX
  • 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...
    11 months ago from Games with Words
  • Bryophytes Outdoors
    Hanging out with botanists in the field is a great way to learn more about plants and their identification. I recently spent a few days with some awesome b...
    1 year ago from Moss Plants and More
  • Aetosaurs: New Phylogenetic Analysis, New Taxon; and New Technique to Analyze Incongruent Character Datasets
    My new paper in PeerJ features a new phylogenetic analysis of the Aetosauria (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia). I've added many new characters and feature all kn...
    1 year ago from Chinleana
  • 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 ...
    2 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 ...
    2 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...
    6 years ago from Disease Prone
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