Evolution and Gene Regulation in Chicago
Happening at the U of Chicago today is the ASBMB meeting “Evolution and Core Processes in Gene Regulation”. The attendees here are an eclectic mix of evolutionary geneticists, systems biologists,...
View ArticleSince when is cancer not caused by mutation?
I feel a major rant about epigenetics coming on… must hold it back until a more convenient time. But I can’t refrain from commenting on just how wrong this is: “We used to think that cancer was caused...
View Article…but my business cards are “cool”
One Version of My Business Cards (Art by Jill Powell; Used With Permission) It’s true. They are. They are those trendy small ones. They have a QR code. And, most importantly, they have original, The...
View ArticleWe still don’t know why children resemble their parents
Back in May, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch held a mother-daughter look alike contest. In their write-up of the results, they turned to a geneticist, Barak Cohen, for some expert commentary on why...
View ArticlePlease don’t blindly follow PopSci’s lead and get rid of comment spaces
Originally posted by Marie-Claire on her home blog, Boundary Vision. Reposted here with permission, because EXACTLY. A tiny explosion happened in the online science communication world yesterday....
View ArticleReach out and grab some cash
I use twitter primarily to keep up with what’s new and newsworthy in science and science communication. It’s a great tool to quickly catch up on new discoveries or controversies. It also can expose...
View ArticlePinker explains why academics can’t write
Ahead of tomorrow’s release of Steven Pinker’s new book on writing, The Chronicle features a teaser essay – “Why Academics’ Writing Stinks”: An insight from literary analysis and an insight from...
View ArticleSome gene conceptions and misconceptions
Any geneticist who has discussed genes with friends and family knows that there are a lot of misconceptions floating around out there. This is understandable – genetics involves some tricky concepts,...
View ArticleOn Beauty in Technical Science Writing
Via Chris Woolston at Nature, I ran across last week’s discussion about the role of beauty in technical scientific prose. Writing over at The Tree of Life, Stephen Heard offers several examples of...
View ArticleGreat Experiments in Science Publishing
It’s a great time to follow scientific publishing: right now there are some innovative and even radical experiments happening. Open access has, of course, been the biggest (and most successful)...
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