Carnival of Evolution #21.

Carnival of Evolution #21 – The Superstar Edition is now up at Mauka to Makai.  It looks fantastic!


A Twit says Tweet?

Well, the Twitter vortex has got me. I am thinking of using it for some educational purposes after a recent teaching tech workshop, so I am going to see whether I like it. If you are so inclined, you can follow my tweets.

I don’t think I will actually read tweets — too much [...]


Quick catch up.

I just got back from a conference + mini-vacation, and haven’t been able to post while I was away. It seems some important papers came out while I was offline. For more, see these summaries already available in blogtown.

Endogenous (non-retro) virus evolution:

Original paper
Not Exactly Rocket Science
ERV
NeuroLogica
The Loom (and NYT)

Substantial differences in Y-chromosomes of [...]


2010 blog goal.

Very simple.

One miiiiiiillion subscribers (to within 3 orders of magnitude). Tell your friends to sign up!


Drawing Flies.

Jay Hosler is an Associate Professor of Biology at Juniata College and a very skilled cartoonist who writes comic-style books that are meant to entertain as well as educate. One of them, Optical Allusions, focuses (no pun) on eye evolution. I asked eye evolution researcher Todd Oakley to review it for the special [...]


Evolution for Everyone: the blog.

David Sloan Wilson, author of various books — most recently Evolution for Everyone — and a proponent of group selection, has started up a blog at ScienceBlogs entitled Evolution for Everyone.


Welcome to the new Genomicron.

You may notice a slightly different URL for the blog. I have moved to WordPress and away from Blogger. Other than the new look, you shouldn’t notice much difference — the feed is the same, all the posts are here, and the old posts redirect to the new blog. However, please [...]


Follow Genomicron on Twitter.

By request, I am making new post notifications available by Twitter. I don’t use it myself, so hopefully it will work for those who want it.

Here’s the feed:


Carnival of Evolution #14.

Carnival of Evolution #14 is up at Quintessence of Dust, so go check it out!


A new transposable element blog.

One of my graduate students has launched a new blog called The Mobilome. As he describes it in his inaugural post,
The goal of this blog is to spread the word about how cool TEs and other parasitic nucleic acids are by talking about interesting elements, papers both old and new and perhaps some educational [...]