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  • Micrelenchus
    Micrelenchus sanguineus*, copyright Natural History Museum Rotterdam.* *Belongs within:* Trochidae. *Micrelenchus* is an Australasian genus of small top s...
    1 day ago from Variety of Life
  • Rewind a black hole story
    Glass bubbles from black hole In terms of the length of human life, we can conclude that this is a bit impossible to reconstruct the story of a particular ...
    1 day ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Pompilus: Spider Wasps of the Dunes
    I've commented before on the difficulties that can be attendent on identifying spider wasps (Pompilidae), one of those groups that combine a high species d...
    5 days ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • Friday Fabulous Flower - nearly last, not the least
    The growing season is winding down, but not over as yet. So far if anything the growing season has been extended a week or so. But both this FFF and n...
    1 week ago from The Phytophactor
  • Leave the bats in their caves: it's time to put an end to gain-of-function research on viruses
    Why have scientists spent years exploring remote bat caves, pulling out bats infected with novel coronaviruses, and transporting them into major cities? ...
    1 week ago from Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • Rapidly Eyeball Abstract and Diagrams
    R.E.A.D. = Rapidly Eyeball Abstract and Diagrams "Did you read the paper by Østman et al. (2014)?" "Yes, I READ it." What does it mean to read a paper? Ho...
    1 month ago from Pleiotropy
  • Steven Weinberg (1933-2021)
    I was quite saddened to hear about the passing of Steven Weinberg, perhaps the dominant living figure from the golden age of particle physics. I was espe...
    2 months ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year ago from RRResearch
  • Daily routine
    7:00 am coffeeeeeeeeeee 8:00 am more coffeeeeee 9:00 am more coffee maybe shower, maybe already showered. Regardless let's assume already showered 10:00 ge...
    1 year ago from Angry by Choice
  • 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...
    2 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...
    2 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...
    4 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...
    5 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 ...
    6 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 ...
    6 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...
    10 years ago from Disease Prone
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