Yum? Photo by Stephen Downes.

• This week at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Which came first: the obese chicken, or its obese gut microbiota?
• And at The Molecular Ecologist: A new method for summarizing and comparing microbial diversity; plus new views of hair traps for pikas and aerial drones for landscape genetics.
• Lupins—yum! Prepping new food crops for a climate-changed world.
• Today in counterintuitive juxtapositions. If you removed every ship from the ocean, the resulting drop in sea level would be made up by the effects of climate change in about six hours.
• Not easy even if you do it directly. Measuring the human mutation rate.
• Would it have killed them to consult the family? Henrietta Lacks is still immortal, and still raising questions about research ethics—this time over the public release of the HeLa genome.
• The old-school approach. On tinkering as a research program.
• “… flirts with predatory OA status.” A pretty scathing review of post-publication review at F1000.
• Context matters more than “motivation.” What campaigns against climate change can learn from public health campaigns.
• What is this I can’t even. Targeted advertising based on your genome?

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