I don’t get too concerned about things such as titles, but I have noticed that this year a more substantial number of students has been sending emails addressed to “Mr. Gregory”. I don’t know if the students this year are unaware that most professors hold a Ph.D. and therefore are “Dr.” and not “Mr.” [...]

I already posted one of these figures from reports on the platypus genome over at Genomicron 2.0 in an earlier round of What’s wrong with these figures?, but the other one of them I hadn’t noticed. For the answers, please see the post on Evolgen.

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Carl Zimmer has posted a spiffy summary of the word usage in his book Microcosm using the super cool Wordle site. For fun, I put in the text of two recent papers (one in press, one in review). I guess you can kinda see what they are about.

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I like Web of Science a great deal. Nearly every paper published in at least the last 20 years is listed, and there are several extremely helpful tools like links to papers cited in and by any given article, total citation numbers, and citation alerts sent via email. It’s incredible.

I dislike scientific junk [...]