Photo by The Tedster.

• This week at The Molecular Ecologist: How realistic are the non-overlapping generations assumed by lots of ecological models? And doing population genomics without a reference genome.
• Inflatable moth-butt feather dusters. They’re not genitalia—but they’re just as important.
• Cryptic variation put to adaptive use. Or, how Mexican cave fish went blind.
• Data science. It’s about the science, first.
• Yay! The FDA cracks down on antimicrobial consumer products in hopes of slowing the evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
• Requiescat. The space robots lost in 2013.
• I think yes. Can we make grad school better by training fewer grad students?
• Including the excellent Kate Clancy! Nature picks ten people who mattered this year.
• Ancient DNA sequencing means even a piece of toe-bone contains Us Pleistocene. The new reconstruction of hanky-panky among ancient human species.

And finally, a video I may very well use in class a few weeks from now: some thoughts on how to read science news.

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