I’ve moved out of my office while falling plaster and cracks in the wall (last years earthquake damage!) are repaired. While packing up I made a decision to see if I could get rid of most of the paper in my office (and not replace it). This is both for environmental reasons and also because…
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Happy Birthday Charles Darwin
Today is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. But hey, you already knew that. All the images going around seem to have Darwin with a big white beard. But lets not forget that his Beagle voyage and much of his scientific work was completed when he was a young man. So this is really…
EvoPhylo’s Birthday
I started this blog one year ago. Its been a lot of fun and gone really fast. I’ve done approx 1 post per week on average, which is about as many as I anticipated. I intended I would blog mostly on research:- phylogenetics, bioinformatics etc but I’ve not done as much of that as I…
Darwin Stamps
The British Royal Mail is issuing a set of Darwin stamps on Feb 12th (Darwin’s 200th birthday). I actually think there are 10 stamps this time, but could only find picture of these 6. Nice, although I can’t remember the last time I wrote an actual letter, maybe I can include the image in my…
New Year Resolutions
Just got back from a trip visiting family in Spain. Relying on my iPod touch for net access but I was unable to blog in any sensible way at all. Couldn’t create posts on Blogger for some reason I’m not quite sure of. I have a few posts I wrote anyway…My new year resolutions include……
DropBox and data syncs
I’ve written previously on struggles with data management and looking for ways to keep good electronic records. I recently discovered DropBox. It synchronises all data placed in the local dropbox folder between multiple subscribed Mac/PC machines. Syncing is in real-time (i.e. continuous not periodically scheduled) and very fast. A copy of the contents of your…
Natural Selection Pie
Today is the 150th anniversary of the presentation of the work of Darwin and Wallace at the Linnean Society. Tell somebody about it, just one extra person. Simple things like this make all the difference. Many people might be surprised to hear that natural selection and evolutionary biology form the core of much of modern…
The Ernst Haeckel Stadium
Just watched Spain win the Euro2008 football final in the Ernst Haeckel stadium, Austria. I was really pleased that Haeckel, evolutionary biologist and artist, originator of the term “phylogeny” and many other key concepts, has been honoured with a football stadium in his name. Sadly a bit of Googling has revealed that it is the…
Beer and Publications
OK, so I was going to write about bioinformatics and phylogenetics in this blog, and here is my second post already that ignores both!I just read a paper testing the relationship between beer consumption and publication output of ecologists in the Czech Republic. Apparently the higher your consumption the lower your total number of publications,…
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