Here's what it probably feels like for a strawberry flower to be pollinated and develop into a strawberry. With cartoons. "The changes can be unsettling." LOL! HT Jeremy Yoder
Commenting on the previous post, Jim Bouldin notes that people often choose, or justify, their methods on the basis that those methods have been used by many others in the past. As Jim points out, there is a problem with this: You should choose well-justified methods,...
FOOB Chris Klausmeier recently sent me a 1962 Ecology paper by Robert McIntosh.* Here's the first paragraph: Thomas Henry Huxley once commented, "Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once" (Huxley 1901). Certain ideas seem to be...
Don't tell me none of your collaborations are like this .
You end up making a terrible sandwich . (I know that's not really the take-home message of the linked post. But it was the best teaser line I could come up with to encourage you to click through and read the whole, hilarious thing).
Invited ms due in a few days, too busy to post, so here's a video of a cockatiel singing "Rock Lobster " by the B-52s :
I've just been asked to review a paper by a leading journal, on a topic that I've never published on, but have blogged about. Who says blogging has no real-world impact? ;-)
What if you want to crowdfund your science but are having trouble developing a professional-looking and compelling pitch? xkcd has the answer!
In a previous post I expressed a bit of wariness that crowdfunded science, by requiring new forms of salesmanship on the part of scientists, might tend to favor style over substance. But if the style is going to be this funny, I'm all for it! Zen Faulkes' SciFund...
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