Monthly Archives: March 2008

I’m sat in a project seminar listening to Timo Knürr’s presentation on association mapping in pine. Unfortunately, Timo is ill, so the talk is being given by his collaborators. One of whom hasn’t even seen the slides.

Aagh! On the latest Birds in the News, Grrlscientist put up this picture of a cassowary:

Via Orac, I see that Wikio has a listing of top science blogs.

Now this is how to organise a small gap between talks in a meeting – we’ve just had The Lumberjack Song. There is obviously plenty of scope for matching sketch to talker/area (hmm, Jostein was in the “Ministry of Silly … Continue reading →

This is one of the really cool things that they do in Helsinki. Every year the ecology and evolutionary biologists con 4 students into organising a symposium for their division (it used to be for the department, before it was … Continue reading →

I keep on insisting that results are best presented as graphs – lots of tables and p-values just add clutter. I now see this even works for blog posts.

Yes, it’s true. The Biologic Institute, the research arm of the Discovery Institute (the main pushers of Intelligent Design) has evolved. Or at least its web page has.

I think Charles Dickens is to blame. Along with the a long conspiracy of English teachers.