Feedburner, ur doin it rong.

Either I have lost a couple hundred subscribers in the past 2 days or Feedburner is being crazy.


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 [...]


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 issue [...]


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 update your bookmarks [...]


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!