I can still vaguely recall the horrid hell that was my second year "non-vascular 'plant'" course (valid contender for most...

While reading and writing about neutral evolution, the theme of polarisation in science (pitting of ideas against each other) comes up a lot...

(RANT ALERT) Of course, we've all heard about how any system with rigid requirements can be manipulated by the undeserving and crush tho...

Still working on the Sunday Protist; it's the last week of classes, finals start next week, and I have to sort out some last minute stuf...

Ok. I'm getting rather annoyed. SOMEONE keeps on citing papers from the future. HIS OWN papers from the future. Now I know that it's...

I found this a while ago, but no one, to my knowledge, seems to have blogged about it: Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientifi...

In this week's Nature : " Overzealous use of decimal places has wrong kind of impact " by J. M. D. Coey 23 Sep 2009 ...

Shit, is it really that easy to get published? Seriously, what the fuck: Caterpillars evolved from onychophorans by hybridogenesis PNAS 2009...

Our department seems rather heavy on molecular biology, and thus I get plenty of opportunity to hang out with with the molecular evolution a...

I wish Blogger had RefWorks citing capabilities... I've gotten spoiled by clicking the 'cite' button to cite stuff. Here I actua...

The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome and the Potential Downfall Of American Society Enjoy!

Perhaps it really does seem thus far that I'm obsessed with have a research interest in protistology. Unfortunately, I don't have t...