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  • Another anti-vax paper bites the dust
    Anti-vaxxers learned a lesson from discredited, de-licensed former doctor Andrew Wakefield, who in 1998 published a badly flawed article in *The Lancet* p...
    3 days ago from Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • Friday Fabulous Flower - Bonus: Monet's lily pond
    Sorry to lax blogging but TPP has been visiting Paris! General impression is this is a great city. Lots of sights, lots of good food and drink, and it i...
    5 days ago from The Phytophactor
  • Dasypogoninae
    Dasypogon diadema*, copyright Fritz Geller-Grimm.* *Belongs within:* Asilidae. The Dasypogoninae are a varied group of robber flies, many of which possess...
    6 days ago from Variety of Life
  • A Neogene Moon
    Back when I was a young lad, some time not so long after the end-Cretaceous extinction, we often spent part of the Christmas holidays camped at the estuary...
    1 week ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • The birth of a new theory: Richard Feynman and his adversaries
    Leading physicists discuss their field's most pressing problems at Shelter Island in April 1947; including, among others, Julian Schwinger, Richard Feynman ...
    1 week ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • Wait, there's a much simpler explanation! (For CRISPR-Cas, not for GTA)
    I'm in Halifax for a couple of weeks, visiting Ford Doolittle and his philosophical colleagues, We've spent much of the time considering the extent to whi...
    1 week ago from RRResearch
  • 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...
    1 month 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...
    2 months ago from Doc Madhattan
  • What I Read (2017)
    (Grade A-F, no E's) Title-Author Additional thoughts C+ The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. An alternate history where the axis wins WWII and...
    4 months ago from Angry by Choice
  • 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...
    7 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...
    9 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...
    9 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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