Jerry gets a frog.

Jerry Coyne now has a frog named after him. I have always wanted a species named after me, and frogs are my favourite, so I’m quite jealous. Meanwhile, the leech that is supposed to bear my name has yet to make an appearance… isn’t that right, Mark? Nudge nudge.


My favourite web apps.

I don’t really use Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, or the other social networking stuff that the kids are into these days (bah!), but I do try to keep up with more useful web 2.0 applications. Here’s a list of some of my favourites.

Firefox This is the best browser, period, and it finally surpassed IE! [...]


Where am I? - 2

A slightly easier clue this time…


Where am I?

Easy question… where am I (not a trick — I just took this picture)?


Another, um, good reason to care about genome sizes.

You denizens of the science blogosphere probably will have heard about the, shall we say, “questionable” article by Donald Williamson (and communicated by Lynn Margulis) in PNAS, in which he claimed that insect larvae arose via hybridization between non-metamorphosing ancestral insects and Onychophora (velvet worms).

Maybe this sounds silly to you.  Me [...]