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Any biologists looking for a job?
Posted by PZ Myers on October 12, 2016 My university is hiring for a full-time, tenure-track biology position. Take a look at our job ad: Duties/Responsibilities: Teaching undergraduate biology courses including cell biology, genetics, electives in the applicant’s areas of expertise, and other courses that support the biology program; advising undergraduates; conducting research that could involve undergraduates; and sharing in the governance and…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Hey, that bird stole my courtship technique!
Posted by PZ Myers on October 11, 2016 Little known fact: like Costa’s hummingbird, the facial plumage has an iridescent underside that I can flash with muscle contractions.
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Bite my shiny metal ass!
Posted by PZ Myers on October 3, 2016 Autophagy wins a Nobel
Posted by PZ Myers on October 3, 2016 Well, actually, Yoshinori Ohsumi has won the prize for his work on autophagy, a cellular process you may have never heard of before. The word means “self eating”, and it’s an important pathway that takes chunks of the internal content of the cell and throws them into the cell’s incinerator, the lysosome, where enzymes and…
Friday Cephalopod: Net traps and chiller
Posted by PZ Myers on October 1, 2016 If you ever wondered how to breed nautiluses…
Friday Cephalopod: It’s a trap!
Posted by PZ Myers on September 23, 2016 Don’t let the pokeboys and pokegirls enslave you!
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: I ain’t afraid of no ghost…
Posted by PZ Myers on September 20, 2016 …snake, that is.
Friday Cephalopod: Epic Battle!
Posted by PZ Myers on September 16, 2016 Mary’s Monday Metazoan: It’s escaped from his head!
Posted by PZ Myers on September 12, 2016 It’s called a Black-Waved Flannel, but none of us are fooled. We know where that came from. It’s probably finished consuming its brain meal and is looking for a new host.
Old Earth creationists are just as ridiculous as Young Earth creationists
Posted by PZ Myers on September 12, 2016 The oldest evidence for microbial life has been found in Greenland, with fossilized 3.7 billion year old stromatolites (layered bacterial colonies) found in the rocks. Here’s what they look like: And here’s the abstract of the paper: Biological activity is a major factor in Earth’s chemical cycles, including facilitating CO2 sequestration and providing climate feedbacks.…