Bjornostman

LATEST ARTICLES ( 117 )

• On Independence

  [Repost from July 4th, 2009.]On this 4th of July allow me to quote that famous sentence from the Declaration of Independence:"We hold these truths to be... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2012 SCIENCE

• What Happens to Bacterial Communities Under Selection?

  

  When one gene comes under a new selection pressure, a population can respond by increasing the frequency of the better alleles. Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2012 SCIENCE

• Titles

  

  Some times very technical papers are published that would be very good for me to read. Papers that on title don't look very sexy (to me). Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2012 SCIENCE

• CoE Poster for Ottawa

  

  BEACON has a booth at Evolution 2012 in Ottawa, and they have invited me to put up a poster about Carnival of Evolution. Here's a draft. Let me know what you... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2012 SCIENCE

• China is a Dictatorship

  

  The fact that Hu Jintao refuses to talk to the Danish press as he visits Denmark next week. Apparently he never has in China either, in the almost ten years tha... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2012 SCIENCE

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  This is only a fraction of the new papers on research in evolutionary biology from the last week or so. How many creationist papers have been published in the... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2012 SCIENCE

• Kreativ Blogger {award}

  

  I've been chosen for the Kreativ Blogger award chain letter*. I'll play along. Rules: link to the blog who nominated you, say seven things about yourself that... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2012 SCIENCE

• Carnival of Evolution on Pharyngula

  

  The June edition of Carnival of Evolution is now live on Pharyngula: Carnival of Evolution #48: The Icelandic Saga! There are nearly 50 posts written by some... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2012 SCIENCE

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  Wondering, with all the time in the world, would we even do all the things we say we would if we had all the time in the world? How does that even work? Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2012 SCIENCE

• The Black Queen Hypothesis

  

  In the game of Hearts, the object is to not get certain cards. The most vile of them all is the dreaded black queen of spades, which is as bad as all the other... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2012 SCIENCE

• The Evolving Carnival

  

  The CoE blogger thinks Carnival of Evolution is evolving. Doofus! There's no population, no real inheritance, and not even a genetic code to be transmitted. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2012 SCIENCE

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  Yet more papers from the ToCs that I'd like to live longer to read. Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests an evolutionary risk management strategy... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2012 SCIENCE

• Is Eigenfactor Really a Good Measure?

  

  I have just been alerted to Eigenfactor - a new measure of how influential scientific journals are. A one-page article in PNAS discusses its use, and explains... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2012 SCIENCE

• CoE #47: All the Evolution News Fit to Blog

  

  47th Carnival of Evolution has been posted on Evolving thoughts. All the evolution news that fit to blog includes this interesting post on the caveman diet:... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 SCIENCE

• Titles

  

  Last weeks interesting papers on evolution: Adaptive evolution of facial colour patterns in Neotropical primates Selection in a fluctuating environment leads... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 SCIENCE

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  More papers published this week about evolution: The Evolution of an Enigmatic Human Trait: False Beliefs due to Pseudo-Solution Traps. Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2012 SCIENCE

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  As a new feature mostly intended for my own benefit, I will start posting titles of new papers that I come across in the ToCs that I get emailed every week. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 SCIENCE