Be vewwy vewwy quiet. I’m hunting … everything. Photo by Hans Pama.

• This week at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! An army of cloned wasps demonstrates the importance of host-parasite specificity.
• And at the Molecular Ecologist: Best practices for scientific programming.
• How to be a queer ally — in science! An upcoming Q&A and/or discussion.
• What about “Caution: not actually science”? Guest editor abuses his position to publish anti-feminist screed in a scientific journal. Journal apologizes badly, retracts screed, apologizes again, and then doesn’t mark the paper’s online copy — until someone tweets about it.
• Paging Dr. Pangloss. Researchers shocked to discover that their adaptive storytelling doesn’t explain women’s taste in male body hair.
• It just means you’re a lousy singer. If you can’t sing, it may not be because you’re tone deaf.
• Well, a model Iguanodon. The time Victorian scientists celebrated New Year’s Eve inside an Iguanodon.
• Most specific sample ever? Gay men found to be happier than their straight twin brothers.
• Misremember me, maybe? Carly Rae Jepsen is on to something besides a catchy tune.
• Furry murderers. That study about cats’ nocturnal hunting, as an infographic.
• The reports of Solenodon‘s extinction were slightly exaggerated. The venemous, shrew-like mammal has been rediscovered in Cuba.

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