- This week, at The Molecular Ecologist: In some viruses, mutation rates may be shaped by simple population dynamics.
- And, at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Do African herbivores run for their dinner, or for their lives?
- Bookmarked! A step-by-step guide for getting started with Github.
- What is this, 1920? No, we humans haven’t freed ourselves from natural selection.
- Because where else would it want them? Here is an insect with gears in its legs.
- Good news: they’re nothing new. Bad news: they’re nothing new. A brief history of human fretting about pimples.
- Found by a seventeen-year-old, too. Some butterflies collected by Alfred Russell Wallace, then apparently lost in a fire, have turned up in Oxford.
- Yep, they have it. The latest approach for reconstructing past environmental condition involves whales’ earwax.
- And how they link to animals’ physiology. A nice description of plant immune responses.
- Eyeing the exits is never a good sign for the thing you’re exiting. No, PhDs looking at non-academic careers is not a sign that we should make more PhDs.
- Vladimir Nabokov: He could write, he could catch butterflies, he could handle a colored pencil a little.
- “She was a professor?” Yeah, but she was an adjunct.
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