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In case you haven’t been following the series of posts by evolutionary biologist Dr. Arlin Stoltzfus posted on Sandwalk, here is a list hosted at his own site: The Curious Disconnect: Introduction (March 19, 2010). The Mutationism Myth 1. The Monk’s Lost Code and the Great Confusion (March 29, 2010) describes how the mutationism [...] Brian Switek has a paper coming out in Evolution: Education and Outreach that discusses the nonsense surrounding Darwinius, dubbed hyper-hypefully “the link”, and the contribution that blogs played in setting the record straight. Check it out. Part two of the discussion that started about graduate students is about people who have PhDs in a scientific discipline and may even have faculty positions in a science department. Does having such a position automatically make someone a “professional scientist”? To kick things off, I will quote from one post cited in the [...] My anti spam plugin seems to be working well, so I am going to try opening the comments up so that moderation isn’t required. Hopefully the spam won’t pile up again this time. (You still have to give a name and email, though — anonymous comments have a way of being silly.) I’m not a science blogger, I’m a scientist-blogger, a professional scientist* who has a blog. So I am not offended by this zinger of a paragraph by Virginia Heffernan in The New York Times: Hammering away at an ideology, substituting stridency for contemplation, pummeling its enemies in absentia: ScienceBlogs has become Fox News for [...] The recent kerfuffle at ScienceBlogs has got me thinking about whether Evolver Zone could/should expand to become something of a blog “network” for evolution bloggers who focus on science. I think it could easily become a more informal collection of blogs — individuals could host their own blogs and have 100% control of design [...] Nature writer Chris Clarke of Coyote Crossing (@canislatrans on Twitter) has kindly assembled a common RSS feed for the ScienceBlog ex-pats. If you want to keep track of those who have left, follow it here. Science writer Carl Zimmer of The Loom (@carlzimmer), himself a former ScienceBlogs member, has also created a running set [...] Well, in case you hadn’t noticed already, what with several of their best science writers and various scientists and philosophers leaving, and the content being driven more and more by politics/religion rather than science, ScienceBlogs has removed any doubt that they have, in fact, jumped the shark. They are now the home of Food [...] Either I have lost a couple hundred subscribers in the past 2 days or Feedburner is being crazy. Carnival of Evolution #21 – The Superstar Edition is now up at Mauka to Makai. It looks fantastic! |
T. Ryan Gregory 
I am an evolutionary biologist specializing in genome size evolution at the University of Guelph in Canada.
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