Author Archives: rpg

The first edition of Scientia Pro Publica is up. It’s the new blog carnival with lots of scientific goodies (and something naff about phenology). So go along and see what’s new! The next edition will be in two weeks, so … Continue reading →

Grrlscientist has decided to start a new blog carnival, for good science writing from the blogosphere. She wants to call it Scientia, which is indeed a good name, but an anonymous commenter from Vancouver pointed out that the name was … Continue reading →

I know none of you noticed, but I wasn’t around the blogosphere much last week, because I was in York, at a workshop. I had left Helsinki in the depths of winter, with snow and ice on the ground. Helsinki, … Continue reading →

This evening I gut an email from a new Open Access journal: Trends in Evolutionary Biology: Trends in Evolutionary Biology, March 2009 We would like to invite you to submit your next paper to Trends in Evolutionary Biology. http://teb.pagepress.org/ Looking … Continue reading →

I just got myself really confused, reading this in an etoc: A record of plant migration in the main asteroid belt

Recently we’ve had a visitor on the balcony hiding from the snow, and eating the bird food. Yesterday, The Beast

I hope none of you will object to a bit of advertising. I’ve been co-editing1 a special issue of Annales Zoologici Fennici on Methods in Ecological Research. I’ll blog more about it when it comes out, but for now here’s … Continue reading →

I think we all know who is really right.

What is a hunter? Usually someone who searches for something. So how about this headline from the BBC, then? US ‘CO2 hunter’ set for lift-off $270m mission seems a lot of money to look for CO 2 – it’s all … Continue reading →

I just received an email through a mailing list about a graduate position in Frankfurt on sponge evolution.