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  • Domains of Applicability (DOA) in top-down and bottom-up drug discovery
    You don’t use a hammer to do impressionistic painting. And although you technically could, you won’t use a spoon for drinking beer. The domains of applica...
    1 day ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Friday Fabulous Flower - Pale blue Aster
    Amid the many SYCs of fall, a few fall flowering plants of different color are a welcome relief. Technically this aster flowers in late summer, the firs...
    1 day ago from The Phytophactor
  • How much brain damage is too much? NFL players head for the exits.
    The smartest player in the NFL just quit. Not because he was unable to play, and certainly not because of his age–he's only 26. No, Baltimore Ravens' playe...
    5 days ago from Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • Jewels among Beetles
    There are many contenders for the title of most stunning-looking insect but there is no question that the jewel beetles have a place among the line-up. Som...
    1 week ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Osmiini
    *Female *Osmia coerulescens* carrying masticated leaf, copyright Jeremy Early.* *Belongs within:* Megachilidae. *Contains:* Megachilini. The Osmiini are ...
    1 week ago from Variety of Life
  • First Eukaryotic Microbiology Classes
    Since we do not start classes until after Labor Day, the first week represents a Wednesday, Friday week for my writing intensive Eukaryotic Microbiology co...
    2 weeks ago from Angry by Choice
  • What's noise, what's Illumina bias, and what's signal?
    The PhD student and I are trying to pin down the sources of variation in our sequencing coverage. It's critical that we understand this, because position-s...
    5 weeks ago from RRResearch
  • 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...
    5 weeks 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...
    1 month ago from Pleiotropy
  • 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...
    2 months 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...
    2 months ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • 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...
    10 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...
    1 year 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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