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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.

Bronwen Dekker posted about googling oneself, so like any good egoist I did the same.

It’s up – the Carnival of Cities, over at GrrlScientist’s place.

The big news on the BBC World Service (and elsewhere)this morning was that their desks had been shaken by an earthquake. I reckon this doesn’t look good for God.

I’ve just had a simple but brilliant idea to finally get rid of the p-value.

Grrlscientist is glaring at me virtually, so I had better write something about Helsinki, for the Carnival of Cities blog festival she’s compiling. I’m a bit unsure about this, for the simple reason that I’m not sure Helsinki really counts … Continue reading →