Much data. Photo by Minette Layne.

• This week, at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! Should women have to give up family life to build a career in science?
• And, at The Molecular Ecologist: Pleuni Pennings talks about her path to scientific research.
• Pettiness personified. Some inconsequential editor outs Dr. Isis, gets roundly roundly rebuffed.
• No, really, don’t. If you absolutely must kill an arthropod, you can probably do it more safely than by blowing up your house.
• Shiny! Tagging X chromosomes with different fluorescent markers reveals mosaics of parental influence.
• Wow. Many cow. So not Trivers-Willard. Records from almost 1.5 million animals demonstrate that, on average, cows make more milk for daughters.
• Hmm. Application of fungicide and insecticide to swaths of rainforest suggest that pathogenic fungi, but not insect herbivores drive total plant community diversity.
• CSI: Cretaceous. Piecing together how dinosaurs fought.

And, because I’ve just wrapped up another round of Citizen Science (well, except for the grading), a little advice for some of my “undeclared” students, via io9:

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