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 [...]

Following in the tradition of Zimmer’s The Loom, Wilkins’s Evolving Thoughts has left ScienceBlogs for more suitable habitat. Be sure to update your links.

Well, as if I needed any more evidence that my life has become a time warp of committees, students, grant applications, and manuscripts, it has suddenly been another year of blogging. That’s right, two years ago today was the inaugural post at Genomicron. I think the main trend over the past year has been [...]

Pending some improvements in the Blogger anti-spam feature, all comments will be moderated and anonymous ones are turned off.

Unless I hear an objection, I think I will close down the anonymous comments feature. I don’t get many comments on the blog in any case, but I find it frustrating when people are not confident enough in their statements to sign them. I also find it is used as an excuse for bombast [...]

Head over to The Loom and see Carl Zimmer’s New York Times article on Crunching the data for the tree of life. I quite like the “Google Earth” analogy, and I certainly look forward to the day that we can zoom in and out of phylogenetic trees. (There is one major difference, however: the [...]

Well, it looks like Evolgen has decided to shut down indefinitely. I kept Evolgen on my feed list the whole time (plenty of others have been dropped, only a few re-added), and I enjoyed reading it. However, I can sympathize with blogging becoming a lower priority. Honestly, my posts have gotten fewer and farther [...]