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  • The Life and Times of Dissodinium
    I've referred before to the position of the minute crustaceans known as copepods as one of the major groups of animals making up the marine zooplankton. Co...
    4 hours ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Scatopsoidea
    *Black compost fly *Scatopse notata*, copyright Miroslav Deml.* *Belongs within:* Bibionomorpha. The Scatopsoidea are a clade of flies united by wings wit...
    19 hours ago from Variety of Life
  • Why is a university hosting a conference on a practice that may be an abuse of human rights?
    Sometimes you think you've settled an issue, and you can move on. Demonstrating that a health practice is useless and sometimes harmful should be enough t...
    1 day ago from Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • Another endangered orchid - How Showy
    This Friday Fabulous Flower is one of the grandest (fabulous?) orchids in North America, the Showy Lady slipper, *Cypripedium reginae*, and yes, you shall...
    3 days ago from The Phytophactor
  • Why doesn't all the GTA get taken up?
    I've been modelling the production and uptake of GTA particles in a culture, hoping to understand the cause of the surprising GTA-accumulation curve I desc...
    4 days ago from RRResearch
  • Science and faith in a ceremonial cave
    The hour was late, but it was still hot. Frijoles Canyon loomed to my right, showcasing its surfeit of stratigraphic tuff and igneous ash layerings and p...
    1 week ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Manifestation of Prof Stress
    The Spring semester has ended, which means something from a teaching perspective but not from a research perspective. At least that's true for me. I know o...
    1 week ago from Angry by Choice
  • Hunting up the ghosts of elements
    *This post originally appeared at the UNESCO International Year of Light's blog, in October 2015. The site is no longer available.* Interior of an antique...
    2 months ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • Pi stories: the Cyclometricus and other tales
    *Fifth period* It was 1621 when the *Cyclometricus* by *Willebrord Snellius*, a pupil of *Ludolph van Ceulen*, was published. Snellius proved that the peri...
    3 months ago from Doc Madhattan
  • 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...
    8 months ago from Moss Plants and More
  • Nazi Geologists Of The Reich
    In April 1941 Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler established the 'SS-Wehrgeologen Battalion 500', the Schutz-Staffel unit of military geologists. Members were...
    10 months ago from History of Geology
  • Open letter to President Trump
    Dear Donald Trump. You are a great president. Probably one of the greatest this country has ever seen. You have the best mind for it, and the fake news med...
    10 months ago from Pleiotropy
  • 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year ago from Games with Words
  • 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...
    2 years 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 ...
    3 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 ...
    3 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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