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Friday Cephalopod: Don’t blame me, I voted for Cthulhu
Posted by PZ Myers on November 18, 2016 Friday Cephalopod: How to make a squid
Posted by PZ Myers on November 4, 2016 Just follow the simple steps in this video.
Friday Cephalopod: I hope this is the low-rent district
Posted by PZ Myers on October 22, 2016 You’d think Octopolis would be a lovely place, but then you discover it’s a junk-covered slum where the octopuses are engaged in street warfare.
Friday Cephalopod: Fear them
Posted by PZ Myers on October 14, 2016 You knew that one beneficiary of over-fishing (it removes competition) and climate change (they like it warm) is that cephalopod populations are booming, right? Those of us who love the little beasties also have appreciate that they are a portent of coming oceanic doom. Spooky.
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!